Random832 wrote: > On Sat, May 21, 2016, at 12:54, Peter Otten wrote: >> It's not your fault, there's an odd quirk in the library: you have to >> keep a reference of the PhotoImage instance around to prevent the >> image from being garbage-collected. > > Just out of curiosity, why is this a "quirk" and not a bug?
I agree that this is at least a usability bug, but I think someone with a clue (Fredrik Lundh?) wrote it that way intentionally. > Why isn't the reference held by the Label? I can only speculate: to avoid a tcl/python reference cycle? You might file a bug report and see what comes of it. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
