New submission from Serhiy Storchaka: For now Tkinter generates Tk widget names just from Widget instance id.
>>> import tkinter >>> root = tkinter.Tk() >>> frame = tkinter.Frame(root) >>> button = tkinter.Button(frame) >>> str(button) '.3070531884.3055478668' These names are not very readable and distinguishable. I think it would be better to generate names from widget type and short sequential number. For example '.frame#1.button#2' or '.1frame.2button'. There are some questions: 1. Should numbering be continuous or separate for different types of widgets? 2. Should a number precede or follow a widget type? 3. What separator, prefix or suffix be used? "#" looks too common and can lead to conflicts with user defined names or names generated by Tk or special Tk syntax. ---------- components: Tkinter messages: 265591 nosy: serhiy.storchaka, terry.reedy priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: More human readable generated widget names type: enhancement versions: Python 3.6 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue27025> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
