On 3/30/2009 3:37 AM Eric Brunel apparently wrote:
The string representation of Tkinter objects seems to be a design principle in this module: it'll always evaluate to the representation this object has at tcl level. Since a XxxVar is represented by an actual variable at tcl level, its string representation is the name of this variable. I guess it's quite easier to build the commands that'll be passed to the tcl interpreter this way: you don't have to check the type of the objects you handle, but pass them through str and insert the result directly in the command.
This is a helpful answer: it "feels" right and can be explored further. Thanks, Alan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
