[Tutor] tkinter actively maintained?

[Alan Gauld]

On 12/06/17 03:54, Michael C wrote:
> Hi all:
> 
> is tkinter still being actively maintained? I only had to ask about this
> because I have never looked stuff like this up before.

Yes, Tkinter tracks the Tk releases so that most of
the activity at present is in the ttk sub package.

There is a moderately active active mailing list
and you can take a look at the list archive
to see the kind of issues they cover.

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/tkinter-discuss/

That having been said, and despite the fact I use
tkinter a lot, it is not the best UI toolkit if
you want to build a comprehensive desktop app.
GTk, Qt and Wxwidgets all offer much richer widget
support and better integration with native look 'n feel.
But Tkinter is great for quick and dirty UIs on top
of CLI code and is easier to learn.

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