New submission from David Lambert b49p23tivg@gmail.com:

Does aksokcancel return "true" or True ? The docstring should say True This is pervasive throughout the module. tkinter has such a mishmash of numbers supplied as strings, strings supplied as constants making this carelessness egregious. On the topic of constants, the messagebox module redefines OK. You might argue that the definition didn't change. I suspect this issue applies to all versions of tkinter or Tkinter having the messagebox.

# types

ABORTRETRYIGNORE = "abortretryignore" OK = "ok" ...

# replies

... OK = "ok"

def askokcancel(title=None, message=None, options): "Ask if operation should proceed; return true if the answer is ok" s = _show(title, message, QUESTION, OKCANCEL, options) return s == OK

assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 355729 nosy: David Lambert, docs@python priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: tkinter messagebox is sloppy type: enhancement versions: Python 3.6

Python tracker report@bugs.python.org https://bugs.python.org/issue38649