Content of window is not showing in tkinter on mac

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I am using MacOS Ventura 13.2, Visual Studio Code and Python 3.9 Tkinter will not show widgets inside of the window (Although the window does appear, and can be resized from the script using root.geometry('500x500').

I also attempted in the terminal and it was the same. It was also the same with PyCharm. Here is my code:

from tkinter import *

root = Tk()
root.geometry("500x500")

testlabel = Label(root, text="hello", fg="White", font=("Helvetica", 14))
testlabel.pack()

root.mainloop()

I also attempted label.grid(column=0, row=0) But nothing worked.

On Ubuntu 22.10 with python 3.10.7 your code runs properly.Probably a MacOs issue.See if this post helps. — Jack Griffin
– Jack Griffin, Commented May 6, 2023 at 2:34

a-jaxell · Accepted Answer · 2025-03-19 21:59:44Z

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I ran into this issue when using PyCharm.
And I solved it eventually by changing the interpreter to the version(3.13) I had installed on my system (Sequoia 15.3.2)
The local one in my project was also 3.9, which was a set up a long while ago.

answered Mar 19 at 21:59

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AntXD Jul 16 at 11:18

Ok, I've moved on from macos already, but I'll mark this as the answer to help anyone else.

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