On Feb 29, 11:40 pm, John Salerno <johnj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The faulty code is not my own, which is part of the reason I asked
> the question. The book I'm reading (The Quick Python Book) does not
> use it, but I saw in the Python docs that it is there, under
> "tkinter" in the Global Module Docs, "24.1.2.2. A Simple Hello World
> Program":
Book authors and Doc authors are not always the most well informed; as
we have witnessed by this very thread!
> from tkinter import *
don't do that!
> class Application(Frame):
> def say_hi(self):
> print("hi there, everyone!")
>
> def createWidgets(self):
> self.QUIT = Button(self)
> self.QUIT["text"] = "QUIT"
> self.QUIT["fg"] = "red"
> self.QUIT["command"] = self.quit
>
> self.QUIT.pack({"side": "left"})
don't do that either! Widgets take optional keyword arguments now so
stop passing in dictionaries.
self.quit.pack(side=tk.LEFT)
Obviously these tutorials are more like: "What NOT to do when coding
Tkinter GUIs!" No wonder everyone hates Tkinter. :-)
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