On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 5:43 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi list, > > I'm a long time lurker with only a very few contributions > in Tkinter. Just one remark about the inclusion of Canvas > in the tkinter package: > Canvas is marked as obsolete since 2000. > See this issue (and the comment at the top of Canvas.py): > http://bugs.python.org/issue210677 > > Cheers, > Matthias Kievernagel. > (mkiever/at/web/dot/de)
Indeed. I remember mentioning it back in December 2007, along with a question about the deprecated status of Tkdnd. With the stdlib-sig list creation, I guess the discussion was lost and I totally forgot to mention it again when the discussion about modules deletions occurred. Sorry Brett. Quentin As a reminder, here's an abstract from the mail back then : """Apart from the awfully inconsistent naming convention, there are a few things that are worth considering for the reorg: 1. FixTk is only called by Tkinter and has no API to expose since it's only a win32 specific piece of code to manage the _tkinter import. It should be renamed _fixtk/_tkfix or merged into Tkinter.py 2. Tkconstants is used in several places : - Tkinter.py does a simple "from Tkconstants import *" - Tix doesn't import it and its documentation shows an example with "import Tkinter" followed by "from Tkconstants import *". And sure enough, DirList and DirTree (from Demo/tix/samples/) both do that. - Finally, CodeContext (Lib/idlelib) imports a few constants manually IMO Tkconstants could be renamed _tkconstants and all imports besides the first one changed to access the constants via Tkinter. 3. Canvas contains a comment saying it's obsolete and that Tkinter.Canvasshould be used instead. I've gone ahead and added it in the "Possible Deletions" tab. 4. All those *Dialog modules seems an obvious candidate for merging/deleting/rewriting/whatever but I have no idea which one should go or stay. Doing some quick greps, it appears the pynche tool uses the tk-prefixed versions, IDLE a combination of the two (see IOBinding.py that uses tkFileDialog, tkMessageBox but also SimpleDialog). I haven't seen much love for the non-prefixed versions, by the way. 5. About Tkdnd, Tkinter documentation says: "This is experimental and should become deprecated when it is replaced with the Tk DND". What's the status on this one ? """
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