diff --git a/Demo/tkinter/README b/Demo/tkinter/README
index 257c95a..9fa7cb4 100644
--- a/Demo/tkinter/README
+++ b/Demo/tkinter/README
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Several collections of example code for Tkinter.
 
 See the toplevel README for an explanation of the difference between
-Tkinter and tkinter, how to enable the Python Tk interface, and where
+Tkinter and _tkinter, how to enable the Python Tk interface, and where
 to get Matt Conway's lifesaver document.
 
 Subdirectories:
diff --git a/Demo/tkinter/guido/ManPage.py b/Demo/tkinter/guido/ManPage.py
index b8b6682..4f0af8c 100755
--- a/Demo/tkinter/guido/ManPage.py
+++ b/Demo/tkinter/guido/ManPage.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 import regex
 from Tkinter import *
+from Tkinter import _tkinter
 from ScrolledText import ScrolledText
 
 # XXX These fonts may have to be changed to match your system
@@ -44,7 +45,7 @@
 	# Parse a file, in the background
 	def asyncparsefile(self, fp):
 		self._startparser(fp)
-		self.tk.createfilehandler(fp, tkinter.READABLE,
+		self.tk.createfilehandler(fp, _tkinter.READABLE,
 					  self._filehandler)
 
 	parsefile = asyncparsefile	# Alias
diff --git a/Demo/tkinter/guido/wish.py b/Demo/tkinter/guido/wish.py
index eec4b69..4f6fdee 100755
--- a/Demo/tkinter/guido/wish.py
+++ b/Demo/tkinter/guido/wish.py
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 # This is about all it requires to write a wish shell in Python!
 
-import tkinter
+import _tkinter
 import os
 
-tk = tkinter.create(os.environ['DISPLAY'], 'wish', 'Tk', 1)
+tk = _tkinter.create(os.environ['DISPLAY'], 'wish', 'Tk', 1)
 tk.call('update')
 
 cmd = ''
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 		tk.record(line)
 		try:
 			result = tk.call('eval', cmd)
-		except tkinter.TclError, msg:
+		except _tkinter.TclError, msg:
 			print 'TclError:', msg
 		else:
 			if result: print result