[Tutor] Why does "window = tk.Tk()" open a tkinter window when typed in the Python interpreter?
boB Stepp
robertvstepp at gmail.com
Fri Aug 28 16:38:15 EDT 2020
On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 2:48 AM Alan Gauld via Tutor <tutor at python.org> wrote:
>
> On 28/08/2020 02:34, boB Stepp wrote:
>
> > 3.8.3: import tkinter as tk
> > 3.8.3: window = tk.Tk()
> >
> > A tkinter window opens despite there being no explicit call to
> > window.mainloop(). Why is this so?
>
> Because it's what Tcl/Tk does...
Perhaps I should phrase the question differently: Why does this
happen in the interpreter but does *not* happen if I run a program
without calling window.mainloop()?
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boB
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