[stdlib-sig] tkinter package idea

[Ron Adam]

Brett Cannon wrote:
 > On Feb 20, 2008 5:14 AM, Ron Adam <rrr at ronadam.com> wrote:
 >>
 >> M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
 >>> On 2008-02-20 11:05, Brett Cannon wrote:
 >>>> While I would rather have a tk package (heck, I would be fine with
 >>>> ditching Tkinter entirely, but I really don't see that happening), but
 >>>> the Tkinter name is so wide-spread I don't think that is reasonable.
 >>> Hey, it's Py3k...
 >> + 1
 >>
 >
 > Is that for the removal or the package name of tk? Question applies to
 > MAL as well as I forgot to ask that of him when he made the Py3K
 > comment.

+1 on a tk package vs tkinter package.  It's much shorter and most of the 
modules are still spelled nearly the same.

    TkMessageBox -> tk.messagebox
    TkFileDialog -> tk.filedialog


 >>>> So here is my current thinking:
 >>>>
 >>>> Tkinter -> tkinter.__init__
 >> Possibly
 >>
 >>     Tkinter -> tk.tkinter
 >>
 >> and have tk.__init__ import it with "from tk.tkinter import *"?
 >
 > I would rather do tk.inter than that amount of repetition in the
 > package/module name.

    Maybe it should be tk.interface?

Ron