Tkinter: wm_protocol() error on RedHat Linux 6.0

[Fredrik Lundh]

Matt Gushee <mgushee at havenrock.com> wrote:
> The other day I released a small Tkinter application which I developed 
> on a Red Hat Linux 5.2 system with Python 1.5.2 (my own build). A Red
> Hat 6.0 user has reported the following error:
> 
>  >  ./surfnotes.py
>  > Traceback (innermost last):
>  >   File "./surfnotes.py", line 56, in ?
>  >     snapp = SurfNotes()
>  >   File "./sngui.py", line 164, in __init__
>  >     self.wm_protocol('WM_DELETE_WINDOW', self.quit)
>  > AttributeError: wm_protocol
> 
> He has tkinter-1.5.1-10.i386.rpm.
> 
> Anyone have an idea what might cause this?

pre-1.5.2 releases don't have "wm_protocol".

for backwards compatibility, use the "protocol"
alias instead.

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