tkinter not working on vs code. python version 3.9.6 (no module named tkinter.__main__;)

Question

from tkinter import *
root = Tk()
myLabel = Label(root, text="Hello World")
myLabel.pack()
root.mainloop()

Every time I run this on VS Code it gives me this error NameError: name Tk is not define.

So I go into my console from VS code and manually put python tkinter.py (which is what I have the filename called and then it says no directory found. Still in the console on VS Code I change all directories so that I'm in the file which contains tkinter.py I run both these codes in console to see what's the issue (python tkinter.py and python3 tkinter.py and same error happens) Tk is not defined

lastly I tried to run this in my VS Code console python3 -m tkinter and it worked the GUI window popped up so I know I have it installed. it just isn't working when I try and run it in from the file (tkinter.py)

Answer 1

Try renaming your file. Sometimes you import the file you're coding in.