> On 2017-08-21 01:28, jf...@ms4.hinet.net wrote: >> Peter Otten at 2017/8/20 UTC+8 PM 5:52:24 wrote: > [snip] > >>> That is just a peculiarity of TCL; a "-" is added to the option by the >>> Python wrapper before passing it along >> >> This extra "-" confuses people when showing up in the Traceback info. >> Can't figure out why the author want to do this. >> > To clarify what Peter said, tkinter is a GUI library written in the Tcl > programming language. The Tcl GUI framework is tk, not tkinter. > The 'tkinter' module in Python's standard library is just a wrapper > around that library.
tkinter abbreviates tk interface. In particular, it adds a Python class-based interface to tcl and tk functions and structures.
> The "-" is added because the Tcl language requires it. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
