New submission from Guilherme Polo <ggp...@gmail.com>: Hi, I'm going to try explaining in short why I think each of these functions in _tkinter could be marked as deprecated and then removed on 2.8 (if it is decided to do it) and 3.1.
globalcall: It is not used anywhere in tkinter. It was abandoned, and doesn't work in the same situations where "call" would work (with threads). It doesn't care about converting the result to a proper python object -- it is always a string (another result of the abandonment). "call" already works in the Tcl global space, because it needs to do so (see issue1581476). Even tcl 8.2 says Tcl_GlobalEval (the root of "globalcall") is old and deprecated. merge: globalcall depends on merge, but removing globalcall makes merge obsolete. It is not used by tkinter either. Searching for "tk.merge" on google codesearch returns a single result dating back python 1.1! globaleval: Uses Tcl_GlobalEval too. I haven't seen it being used, instead I always see eval being used. ---------- components: Tkinter messages: 81021 nosy: gpolo severity: normal status: open title: Deprecating (and removing) "globalcall", "merge" and "globaleval" versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.0 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5136> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
