I installed Anaconda in my MacBookPro (OSX 10.11.4 El Capitan) and try to run the following program of Python3.5.1 using Spyder2; from tkinter import * import sys win = Tk() button = Button(win, text='Push this Button!', command=exit) button.pack() mainloop() However, Spyder2 tells me "from tkinter import * used; unable to detect undefined names", I cannot run it under Spyder2. However, after saving it with the name of "Sample.py" and run it in the Terminal, I can run it successfully. I suppose this error might be caused unresolved error in linker. Can you help me? I also encountered this problem when I installed Anaconda in Windows10. Thank you Bryan. I tried the following code in Spyder2; import tkinter as tk import sys win=tk.Tk() button=tk.Button(win,text="Goodbye",command=exit) button.pack() tk.mainloop() Then, it worked. However, still I do not understand why the original one did not work under Spyder 2, while it nicely worked under Bash. Continue reading...