[Python-Dev] Possible problem that may be caused by Tkinter renaming

[Guilherme Polo]

2008/5/17 Guilherme Polo <ggpolo at gmail.com>:
> Hello,
>
> I smell a problem caused by this line at tkinter/__init__.py:
>
> tkinter = _tkinter # b/w compat for export

Georg and me decided to remove that line as a solution to this problem.

>
> This was fine when tkinter was a Tkinter module, but I believe it
> would be better to rename this to something else.
> Given that python has a lot of users, I'm sure you will be able to
> find all sort of crazy things over the internet and one of them could
> be:
>
> import tkinter
> from tkinter import *
>
> something = tkinter._default_root
>
> Which is not that crazy at all, for some values of crazy, but will fail now.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> -- Guilherme H. Polo Goncalves
>



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-- Guilherme H. Polo Goncalves