[Python-bugs-list] Re: Tkinter wm_colormapwindows doesn't work w/o breaking Tkinter encapsulation (PR#107)

[Guido van Rossum]

> From first glance, it appears there may be two problems: 
> 
>      1) the Tkinter objects aren't being translated to Tk widget names 
>         (label._w, frame._w), and 

This is actually not a bug -- when you print a tuple, repr() is applied 
to its items, but the tk.call() method applies str() to the arguments, 
and the str() of a Tkinter widget returns its _w attribute.  Try
printing map(str, ...) over the final argument tuple.

>      2) The window list isn't being passed to Tk as a Tk list 
>         (i.e. one arg to tk.call)

That's the bug.  I can't really test it right now, but does the
following fix it?

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*** 783,789 ****
  		return self.tk.call('wm', 'client', self._w, name)
  	client = wm_client
  	def wm_colormapwindows(self, *wlist):
! 		args = ('wm', 'colormapwindows', self._w) + _flatten(wlist)
  		return map(self._nametowidget, self.tk.call(args))
  	colormapwindows = wm_colormapwindows
  	def wm_command(self, value=None):
--- 783,791 ----
  		return self.tk.call('wm', 'client', self._w, name)
  	client = wm_client
  	def wm_colormapwindows(self, *wlist):
! 		if wlist:
! 			wlist = (wlist,) # Tk needs a list of windows here
! 		args = ('wm', 'colormapwindows', self._w) + wlist
  		return map(self._nametowidget, self.tk.call(args))
  	colormapwindows = wm_colormapwindows
  	def wm_command(self, value=None):


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