Re: Removal of tkinter from python 3.0? [was: Fate of the repr module in Py3.0]

2008-03-23 Thread Guilherme Polo
2008/3/21, Martin v. Löwis [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've been thinking of volunteering to port Tkinter to Python 3.0, I hadn't noticed that there was any discussion of removing it. It would be a shame IMHO. I don't think Tkinter will be removed. It works just fine in 3k. Of course, if you

Re: Removal of tkinter from python 3.0? [was: Fate of the repr module in Py3.0]

2008-03-23 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Guilherme Polo wrote: 2008/3/21, Martin v. Löwis [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've been thinking of volunteering to port Tkinter to Python 3.0, I hadn't noticed that there was any discussion of removing it. It would be a shame IMHO. I don't think Tkinter will be removed. It works just fine in

Re: Removal of tkinter from python 3.0? [was: Fate of the repr module in Py3.0]

2008-03-21 Thread Martin v. Löwis
I've been thinking of volunteering to port Tkinter to Python 3.0, I hadn't noticed that there was any discussion of removing it. It would be a shame IMHO. I don't think Tkinter will be removed. It works just fine in 3k. Of course, if you would port IDLE to Tk 8.5: that would be a useful

Removal of tkinter from python 3.0? [was: Fate of the repr module in Py3.0]

2008-03-20 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
Was looking at PEP 3108, http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3108/ , and saw that the repr module was slated for vaporization. I've only used the module a few times ever. I'm curious if the community wants it kept around or whether it is considered clutter. The PEP is going to be finalized

Re: Removal of tkinter from python 3.0? [was: Fate of the repr module in Py3.0]

2008-03-20 Thread Paul Rubin
Daniel Fetchinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it just me or others also think that it would be a major loss to remove tkinter from the python core? That would be terrible. Every time I've tried to use one of the other packages it has led to installation hell. Tkinter isn't great, but it's

Re: Removal of tkinter from python 3.0? [was: Fate of the repr module in Py3.0]

2008-03-20 Thread Kay Schluehr
Is it just me or others also think that it would be a major loss to remove tkinter from the python core? PEP 3108 starts off with: Each module to be removed needs to have a justification as to why it should no longer be distributed with Python. From time to time someone makes a serious claim

Re: Removal of tkinter from python 3.0? [was: Fate of the repr module in Py3.0]

2008-03-20 Thread bearophileHUGS
Paul Rubin: Python needs more stuff in its stdlib, not less. If Tkinter doesn't satisfy, then add Gtk (or whatever) to the standard distro. If that happens (i.e. some new toolkit is brought in and declared to be the standard) then it might be ok to drop Tkinter but it certainly shouldn't be

Re: Removal of tkinter from python 3.0? [was: Fate of the repr module in Py3.0]

2008-03-20 Thread sturlamolden
On 20 Mar, 08:39, Daniel Fetchinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thoughts anyone? I don't use tk myself, but scheduling tkinter for vaporization would be a bad idea. A lot of programs depend on it, and it doesn't look ugly anymore (the one that ship with Python still does). Would inclusion of

Re: Removal of tkinter from python 3.0? [was: Fate of the repr module in Py3.0]

2008-03-20 Thread Simon Forman
On Mar 19, 11:39 pm, Daniel Fetchinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Was looking at PEP 3108,http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3108/, and saw that the repr module was slated for vaporization. I've only used the module a few times ever. I'm curious if the community wants it kept around or

Re: Removal of tkinter from python 3.0? [was: Fate of the repr module in Py3.0]

2008-03-20 Thread dave_mikesell
On Mar 20, 2:39 am, Daniel Fetchinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it just me or others also think that it would be a major loss to remove tkinter from the python core? PEP 3108 starts off with: I really like Python since I started using it a couple years ago, but this is a huge turnoff and the

Re: Removal of tkinter from python 3.0? [was: Fate of the repr module in Py3.0]

2008-03-20 Thread Paul Boddie
On 21 Mar, 01:43, Simon Forman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been thinking of volunteering to port Tkinter to Python 3.0, I hadn't noticed that there was any discussion of removing it. That's because the forum for discussing these things wasn't mentioned on comp.lang.python until two days ago.