https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/2e873f7bb1f2b52c97ff225194cb71cde93ab498 commit: 2e873f7bb1f2b52c97ff225194cb71cde93ab498 branch: 3.14 author: Serhiy Storchaka <[email protected]> committer: serhiy-storchaka <[email protected]> date: 2026-06-18T14:45:00Z summary:
[3.14] gh-86726: Fix the documented return type of tkinter info_patchlevel() (GH-151655) (GH-151659) It returns a sys.version_info-like named tuple, not a string. (cherry picked from commit 3cd02a1c2da023974464fd1155982a16474f331b) Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <[email protected]> files: M Doc/library/tkinter.rst diff --git a/Doc/library/tkinter.rst b/Doc/library/tkinter.rst index 4b7aae3cc559ec..e95d838506bc7d 100644 --- a/Doc/library/tkinter.rst +++ b/Doc/library/tkinter.rst @@ -2307,7 +2307,13 @@ Base and mixin classes .. method:: info_patchlevel() - Return the Tcl/Tk patch level as a string, for example ``'8.6.15'``. + Return the Tcl/Tk patch level as a named tuple with the same five fields + as :data:`sys.version_info`: *major*, *minor*, *micro*, *releaselevel* + and *serial*. + *releaselevel* is ``'alpha'``, ``'beta'`` or ``'final'``. + Converting it to a string gives the version in the usual Tcl/Tk notation, + for example ``'9.0.3'`` for a final release or ``'9.1b2'`` for a + pre-release. .. versionadded:: 3.11 _______________________________________________ Python-checkins mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3//lists/python-checkins.python.org Member address: [email protected]
