Graham Horler added the comment:
Are we sure this is dead code, and not just out of date?
e.g. this works, and I use it in production with "if Tkinter.TkVersion >= 8.4":
b = Tkinter.Button(root)
b.tk.call('tk::ButtonEnter', b._w)
Graham Horler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment:
> I'm aware of that and that is why everywhere I see Checkbutton
> being used I see a explicit variable being created.
Absolutely the reason for this patch, to get rid of unnecessary code.
What's not to like?
> I w
Graham Horler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment:
I referred to the man page, as it says this:
Command-Line Name:-variable ... Defaults to the name of the button
within its parent.
When you create a Checkbutton widget without giving a variable=SomeVar,
a default variable is created
Graham Horler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment:
Updated to latest revision, and converted documentation part of the
patch to reST.
Removed the line that pointlessly computes 'filepos', as requested by
Scott Dial.
(Please excuse my reST, I'm new to it and it's
New submission from Graham Horler:
The news page:
http://www.python.org/news/
...has a relative link:
first alpha release
...which resolves to:
http://www.python.org/news/download/releases/3.0
...which does not exist. It should be absolute:
http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.0
