Ask for help about a tkinter problem
Terry Reedy
tjreedy at udel.edu
Mon Aug 21 07:16:19 EDT 2017
> On 2017-08-21 01:28, jfong at ms4.hinet.net wrote:
>> Peter Otten at 2017/8/20 UTC+8 PM 5:52:24 wrote:
> [snip]
>
>>> That is just a peculiarity of TCL; a "-" is added to the option by the
>>> Python wrapper before passing it along
>>
>> This extra "-" confuses people when showing up in the Traceback info.
>> Can't figure out why the author want to do this.
>>
> To clarify what Peter said, tkinter is a GUI library written in the Tcl
> programming language.
The Tcl GUI framework is tk, not tkinter.
> The 'tkinter' module in Python's standard library is just a wrapper
> around that library.
tkinter abbreviates tk interface. In particular, it adds a Python
class-based interface to tcl and tk functions and structures.
> The "-" is added because the Tcl language requires it.
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