Tkinter: "Get root for a widget" is private?

[Randall Hopper]

Fredrik Lundh:
 |Randall Hopper wrote:
 |> I have a widget and want to retrieve the root.  I see the _root() method,
 |> but by Python convention, isn't this method private?
 |>
 |> Should users of Tkinter be calling this?
 |
 |as long as nobody calls the Tkinter police, you're safe.

Well as Python doesn't have enforced data hiding, I try to honor the
conventional access rules.  _<symbol> is private, an implementation detail,
and thus less likely to be present in future versions than <symbol>.

 |    root = widget.winfo_toplevel()
 |    if root.master:
 |        root = root.master # real root

Rob W. W. Hooft:
 |Hm. Except that my Toplevel windows are often nested deeply, and
 |certainly not restricted to children of the root! I think that your
 |approach is distinctly different from _root() except if you severely
 |restrict your toplevel window creation.

Given this it seems we should have a public root() method.  Could we
add a:

    root = _root

definition to Tkinter's Misc class, to make this a public feature?

Thanks,

Randall

-- 
Randall Hopper
aa8vb at yahoo.com