On 2015-07-22, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > On 2015-07-22 16:27, Antoon Pardon wrote: > >> Does the same condition hold for strings? If you are not performing string >> operations on something, it is not a string? > > Tkinter comes to mind. You specify how widgets are laid out strings > that are basically flags: > > text_widget.pack(side=LEFT, fill=BOTH, expand=YES) > > where LEFT, BOTH and YES are strings.
That's Tcl's fault. They have to be passed to Tcl, and Tcl only has one data type: strings. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! An INK-LING? Sure -- at TAKE one!! Did you BUY any gmail.com COMMUNIST UNIFORMS?? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list