Is the Tkinter GUI also the basic way that Python handles a graphics display? (I've never tried it.)
No. Python, in itself, does not "handle" graphics displays at all. For any output to the graphics display, it uses some kind of library, whether it's console output, or a GUI application. One specific GUI library is Tkinter. A standard "print" command (which eventually also outputs to the graphics display) instead uses the terminal emulation of the operating system. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list