best way to increment an IntVar?

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Fri Jun 25 16:02:41 EDT 2010


On 6/25/2010 10:12 AM, Alan G Isaac wrote:
> On 6/24/2010 1:59 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>> It is NOT a numeric "variable" in Python realms.
>
> Sure, but why does it not behave more like one?
> It seems both obvious and desirable, so I'm
> guessing there is a good reason not to do it.

tkinter was written long before newstyle classes and properties existed. 
For 3.x, all the classes had to be and were updated. I presume 
properties could now be used in 3.x to update the interface.

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Terry Jan Reedy




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