Reduce Tk-tinkering

tinker

               verb (used without object)

7.  to busy oneself with a thing without useful results:

8.  to work unskillfully or clumsily at anything.

To reduce Tk-tinkering 

Use EasyGUI

"EasyGUI is a module for very simple, very easy GUI programming in the Python programming language.
... It allows you to program in a traditional linear fashion, and to put up dialogs for simple input and output when you need to. If you have not yet learned the event-driven paradigm for GUI programming, EasyGUI will allow you to be productive with very basic tasks immediately." S.Ferg.

A tinker was originally an itinerant tinsmith, who mended household utensils.
 It is part of  an image that come to mind when  I work with Tkinter.

Tkinter is Python's de-facto standard GUI (Graphical User Interface) package.

 Thinking in Tkinter ... "I've been trying to teach myself Tkinter out of various books, and I'm finding it more difficult than I think it should be. ..." S. Ferg.