> 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
Nice. I shall be spending some time at your website. I actually like wxPython, but I decided to learn a little Tkinter because it's already included and would be an easier and quicker option for small interfaces. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list