https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/19b5e8e1f510eb2fdd3f6261006b61f8cf441101
commit: 19b5e8e1f510eb2fdd3f6261006b61f8cf441101
branch: main
author: Serhiy Storchaka <[email protected]>
committer: serhiy-storchaka <[email protected]>
date: 2026-07-05T14:07:49+03:00
summary:

gh-75952: Document negative offsets in tkinter geometry strings (GH-152531)

Tk geometry strings can contain a negative offset (e.g. 200x100+-9+-8)
when a window edge is positioned beyond the corresponding screen edge.
Note this in the geometry() and winfo_geometry() documentation.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>

files:
M Doc/library/tkinter.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/tkinter.rst b/Doc/library/tkinter.rst
index b84d76b72d2e5b..6c22f9a8020b26 100644
--- a/Doc/library/tkinter.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/tkinter.rst
@@ -2074,6 +2074,7 @@ Base and mixin classes
 
       Return the geometry of the widget, in the form ``widthxheight+x+y``.
       All dimensions are in pixels.
+      An offset can be negative; see :meth:`~Wm.geometry`.
 
    .. method:: winfo_height()
 
@@ -2544,6 +2545,8 @@ Base and mixin classes
       *width* and *height* are in pixels (or grid units for a gridded window);
       a position preceded by ``+`` is measured from the left or top edge of the
       screen and one preceded by ``-`` from the right or bottom edge.
+      An offset can be negative, as in ``'200x100+-9+-8'``, when the window
+      edge is positioned beyond the corresponding screen edge.
       An empty string cancels any user-specified geometry, letting the window
       revert to its natural size.
       With no argument, return the current geometry as a string of the form

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