[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-671741 ] Tk.IntVar.get fails after set(True) in 2.3a1

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Bugs item #671741, was opened at 2003-01-21 13:06
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Category: Python Library
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Edward K. Ream (edream)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Tk.IntVar.get fails after set(True) in 2.3a1

Initial Comment:
Executing the following fails in 2.3a1.  Similar code 
works in 2.1 and 2.2.

def truebug():

    import Tkinter
    Tk = Tkinter
    top = Tk.Toplevel()
    f = Tk.Frame(top)
    f.pack()
    var = Tk.IntVar()
    box = Tk.Checkbutton(f, anchor="w", 
text="box",variable=var)
    box.pack()
    var.set(True)
    val = var.get()

Example:

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
...
Python 2.3a1 (#38, Dec 31 2002, 17:53:59) [MSC 
v.1200 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
...
>>> import truebug
>>> truebug.truebug()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "c:\prog\test\truebug.py", line 15, in truebug
    val = var.get()
  File "C:\PYTHON23\lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py", line 239, in get
    return getint(self._tk.globalgetvar(self._name))
ValueError: invalid literal for int(): True
>>>

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>Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2003-01-21 23:46

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A BooleanVar won't work for a checkbutton: The -variable
argument must have either -onValue or -offValue, which
default to 0/1.

I do think that an IntVar should accept booleans in .set,
and translate them into 0/1.

A slightly related bug is that .get of a BooleanVar should
probably return False/True, not 0/1.

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Comment By: Edward K. Ream (edream)
Date: 2003-01-21 23:10

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Thanks for the explanation.  I shall indeed use a BooleanVar.  
However, it would be nice if tkinter could do what it did 
before...

I asked about this behavior on comp.lang.python and Martin 
v. Löwis said he thought it was a bug.  I'll let you two fight it 
out :-)

Edward

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Comment By: Christos Georgiou (tzot)
Date: 2003-01-21 20:59

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First thought: why not use a BooleanVar?

The problem is that if you do a var.set(True), _tkinter 
translates the argument into a string (_tkinter.c, function 
SetVar after some levels of calling), because I think 
everything in tcl is a string.  In Python pre-2.2.2, str(True) was 
still "1".

What you get in your case by var.get, is the string "True"
(try
print int("True")
or, if you check the Tkinter.py script, try at the end of your 
example:
m= var._tk.globalgetvar(var._name)
and check the type of m.

Resolving this (to allow a bool in an IntVar), one could 
override Tkinter.IntVar.set, perhaps, to allow boolean 
arguments for integer variables (just converting to int before 
calling the Tkinter.Variable.set).

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