In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kevin Walzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm a Tcl/Tk developer who has been dabbling with Python for some time,... >Well, I have finally found a good reason to learn Python in more depth:... > >Any advice, particularly from other programmers with a lot of experience >in Tcl, is appreciated. In Tkinter you don't name widgets to specify their hierarchy; instead when you create a new widget you specify it's parent. A tk name does get generated for you, but you'll never need it. You can set and get properties on Tkinter widgets using dictionary notation: curr_value = wdg["property_name"] wdg["property_name"] = new_value this is very convenient if you don't want to set a lot of properties at once. Grid in Tkinter has less useful defaults than in tk. You should probably specify row and column when using Tkinter's gridder. If you try to mix tk and Tkinter, beware of Tkinter objects that clean up after themselves. For instance a tkFont.Font object represents a named font in tk, but if you lose all references to it in python, the named font in tk is destroyed. Features of Python that are well integrated and well worth using include: - objects - collection classes (including list, dict and set) - exception handling - default arguments for functions tcl is a unusual in its desire to parse every string as a command. It has plusses and minuses, but in any case, you'll have to learn to do without (as you would when switching to almost any other language). -- Russell -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
