X windows and Python?

[Paul Rubin]

Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> writes:
> The way (well, _one_ way) it's supposed to work is you make an
> Xlib call to claim ownership of "the selection". ...

Thanks, this explanation was very interesting.  It would be great if
tkinter had some calls to do this stuff, which I guess means the
underlying Tk needs them (I dunno if it has them).  Anyway, for what I
was doing, it wasn't that urgent, and I'm using an awful workaround.