Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
The specific subsection link is
https://docs.python.org/3/library/tkinter.html#setting-options
The outputs
>>> import tkinter as tk
>>> r = tk.Tk()
>>> r.config('bg')
('background', 'background', 'Background', ,
'SystemButtonFace')
>>> r.config()['bg']
New submission from Jeff S :
The documentation page https://docs.python.org/3/library/tkinter.html states
"Passing the config() method the name of a shorthand option will return a
2-tuple, not 5-tuple." While config() without argument does return a map that
yields references like this, if
