New submission from ChrisRands : Issue arose from this SO post: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48746351/documentation-is-contradicting-... The tkinter documentation suggests: from tkinter import * https://docs.python.org/3/library/tkinter.html But this obviously contradicts PEP8: "Wildcard imports (from <module> import *) should be avoided" https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#imports Is tkinter a valid exception or is this a documentation bug? The commit of this line to the documentation is >10 years old (at least Python 2.4 I think): https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/116aa62bf54a39697e25f21d6cf6799f7fa... ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 312045 nosy: ChrisRands, docs@python priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: tkinter documentation suggests "from tkinter import *", contradicting PEP8 _______________________________________ Python tracker https://bugs.python.org/issue32830 _______________________________________