Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Book authors and Doc authors are not always the most well informed; as > we have witnessed by this very thread! Obviously these tutorials are more > like: "What NOT to do when coding Tkinter GUIs!" No wonder everyone hates > Tkinter. :-)
Indeed. One of the things that motivated me to write the tutorial at http://www.tkdocs.com is the rather poor state (in terms of being out of date, incorrect, or demonstrating poor practices) of most Tkinter documentation. Call it self-serving, but I think the Tkinter world would be a happier place if everyone just pointed to TkDocs. ;-) To your point about explicit root, etc. I'll make the general observation that lots of different things work in a given situation, which is just fine for quick little hacky things. If people are doing anything more than a throwaway however, they'd be better served by spending a bit of time learning the conceptual underpinnings (e.g. http://www.tkdocs.com/tutorial/concepts.html) after which the "right" thing to do will be more obvious. Mark -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
