On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 7:39 AM, Quentin Gallet-Gilles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 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. >
No need to apologize. Sorry for missing your initial email! I have only seriously used Tkinter once, so I am not in a good position to judge any of this. What do people think about the suggestions? > 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 > Already suggested to be hidden. > 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. > What do people think about this? > 3. Canvas contains a comment saying it's obsolete and that Tkinter.Canvas > should be used instead. I've gone ahead and added it in the "Possible > Deletions" tab. > Dealt with. > 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. > Don't know about this. > 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 ? """ Don't know about this one either. Thoughts? -Brett _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
