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How to run python script on atom?

I'm new to using atom and was wondering how to run a python script on it. I have code written at the moment which works perfectly fine in normal python shell, using tkinter, however when I run it through the command line, it says:
import tkinter as tk
ImportError: No module named tkinter
How do I fix this? In my environment variables I have already added python.exe, the file directory to the actual script I'm running and to the python download itself. How do I fix this?

The best way is to load the Jupyter plugin. It's called Hydrogen. Then under the packages menu, you can select Hydrogen/Run all and it will run your python code. there is a keyboard shortcut for doing this which speeds up the process. You can easily check your code as you write it by using the hydrogen option to run a line and go to next line.
As for your Tkinter problem have you loaded Tkinter? You can do this using pip install Tkinter. After that try running your code again.

In python 2.7 and below, the modules's name is Tkinter, while in 3.0 and above, it is tkinter.
Atom (whatever this is) seems to use a 2.7 or below version of python interpreter.

How to stop console from poping up when command is called from python GUI?

I have made a GUI for my application. All scripts are in Python (2.7) and the GUI is created with Tkinter. I work on Linux, but I needed this app to be executable on Windows. So I've used py2exe, to create an executable. After a while it is working almost perfectly, but I have the following problem:
Somewhere in the application, I need to call external programs, namely ImageMagick and LaTeX. I use the commands convert, pdflatex, simply by importing os module and running os.system(build), where build = 'convert page.pdf page.gif'etc. When those commands are called from the *.exe application the console pops up (meaning a console window opens up for a split of a second and closes again). Is there a way, to prevent this behaviour?
It does not interrupt the application, but it is ugly and not a desired behaviour.
[Note] I chose not to add any samples, since there are lots of files and other content, which, I think, is not related to the problem. I could however try to post minimal (not)working example. But maybe it is not needed.
Thanks!

import subprocess
subprocess.Popen("application.exe", shell = True)

Script works in IDLE, but .py-file doesn't work

I have a tkinter script, which runs just fine in IDLE. However, when I double click the .py-file from Windows Explorer, the console window flashes half a second and then it exits.
I was able to screenprint the console window. It says:
...etc.etc...
NameError: global name 'simpledialog' is not defined
simpledialog is a module in tkinter which I use in my script. As I do from tkinter import *, there is no need to explicitly write tkinter.simpledialog.
It works in IDLE, why not as .py?

IDLE uses Tkinter as its graphical environment. It is possible that your code is relying on a side effect of an import by IDLE itself. This is especially true if you use IDLE without a subprocess.
The simpledialog module does not import when using from tkinter import *.
Try adding this to your code:
import tkinter.simpledialog as simpledialog

Have you updated your PATH environment variable so that your Python executable is found? You can find more information on how to do here - Using Python on Windows
But you basically need to make sure that the folder containing python.exe (e.g. C:\Python32) is displayed when you type the following command from a prompt:
echo %PATH%

I had exactly the same problem with one of my scripts utilizing Tkinter.
Adding call to mainloop() fixed the issue.
See this tutorial for an example: [http://sebsauvage.net/python/gui/#import1
In my case, in the init function I have
def __init__(self,Width=400, Height=400):
# Create GUI window ------------------------------
win = Tk()
...
in the end of init I added:
win.mainloop()
Now it works by just running the file.
Hope this helps

Similar trouble for me just now, in my first week with python. But I dimly remembered a similar problem with a simple early test script and thought the trouble then was # comments.
So I tried that with my Tkinter infused .py script. It ran fine in IDLE as you say, then only flashed when clicked in windows. But there were a couple # commented lines at the top of file.
I took them all out and it now runs no sweat directly in windows. Have a look .. for #.
Sorry, can't seem to delete this post. Now the files work #comments included. Don't know what's up with that. ..

I found that changing the executable py file to a file.pyw fixed the problem. This tells python to execute it using the pythonw.exe which runs the script without the terminal/console in the background.
Not sure why this works, perhaps some screwed up environment variables from a previous python installation.

Changing the file's extension to pyw instead of py might solve the problem

build cmd into Tkinter window

Hi i was wondering if you could have the comand prompt box pop into the Tkinter window when you start the program? Some thing like:
from Tkinter import *
admin = Tk()
cmd = Cmd(admin)
cmd.pack()
admin.mainloop()
I'm on windows

http://tkinter.unpythonic.net/wiki/CmdTkHere is what you want, this is not just opening a cmd window. its embedding cmd.exe into a Tkinter.Frame. And a note here if you rename the python script to ".pyw" extension, the console will be hidden. Except for in a virtual environment's.

I don't believe there is any built in console widget. It may be possible to whip up a custom one using the Tkinter Text widget. However, that would take a bit of effort/time.
Another possible option is simply have your program launch command prompt.
Two different ways to launch command prompt on a Windows machine.
import subprocess, os
subprocess.Popen('cmd.exe')
os.system("cmd.exe")
EDIT:
Unforunetly I don't believe there is any built in widget like that. However I thought of another possible solution, check out the code for the IDLE GUI, it has a console and the GUI portion is entirley written using Tkinter. So you may be able to utelize that code.

Hide console for Tkinter app on OSX

I'm trying to hide the Terminal when I launch a GUI Tkinter based app, but when I double click the app.py file on OSX, the Terminal window appears. I've tried changing the extension to .pyw and tried launching it with /usr/bin/pythonw, but no matter what, the Terminal window still appears.
I've even tried adding the try/except below, but when I run it I get the error: 'invalid command name "console"' in the Terminal window that appears.
from Tkinter import *
class MainWindow(Tk):
def __init__(self):
Tk.__init__(self)
try:
self.tk.call('console', 'hide')
except TclError, err:
print err
win = MainWindow()
win.mainloop()
I haven't been able to find any way to hide the Terminal window from appearing. Anybody got any ideas?

By double-clicking a .py file on OS X, you are likely launching a Python gui instance via the Python Launcher.app supplied with OS X Pythons. You can verify that by selecting the .py file in the Finder and doing a Get Info on it. Python Launcher is a very simple-minded app that starts Python via a Terminal.app command. To directly launch your own Python GUI app, the preferred approach is to create a simple app using py2app. There's a brief tutorial here.
EDIT:
There are other ways, of course, but most likely any of them would be adding more levels of indirection. To make a normal launchable, "double-clickable" application, you need some sort of app structure. That's what py2app lets you create directly.
A very simple-minded alternative is to take advantage of the AppleScript Editor's ability to create a launcher app. In the AppleScript editor:
/Applications/Utilities/AppleScript
Editor.app in OS X 10.6
/Applications/AppleScript/Script
Editor.app in 10.5
make a new script similar to this:
do shell script "/path/to/python /path/to/script.py &> /dev/null &"
and then Save As.. with File Format -> Application. Then you'll have a double-clickable app that will launch another app. You can create something similar with Apple's Automater.app. But, under the covers, they are doing something similar to what py2app does for you, just with more layers on top.

Adding to the answer by Ned Deily, im my case when I tried to launch the Python application using an AppleScript application, it did not work initially. I discovered that it has something to to with some kind of encoding error (I am using UTF-8 and in the past I had felt need to configure it to UTF-8).
So, after further investigation, I discovered that I can accomplish this by creating an AppleScript application with the following code (adjusting the paths of python3 and of the Python application as needed):
do shell script "export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8; export LANG=en_US.UTF-8; /usr/local/bin/python3 '/Users/USER/FOLDER/SCRIPT.py' &> /dev/null &"
It launches the Python application without any Terminal windows. The AppleScript application can then be personalised with a custom icon as usual, and can be placed in the Dock. When clicked, it will launch the Python intepreter, that still shows up in Dock, but with no visible windows.
I think this may be useful to other users.

'console hide' doesn't hide the Terminal in OS X. It hides Tk's built-in console, which is really a relic from the MacOS Classic days (and which is still commonly used on Windows).