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[Mark Lawrence]

On 07/03/2016 17:38, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 4:23 AM, Tony van der Hoff <tony at vanderhoff.org> wrote:
>> Thanks to all who replied to my cry for help; I understand it better now.
>> But:
>>
>> On 07/03/16 16:08, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> The documentation should tell you what you need to import to make
>>> something work. In this case, I would guess that "import
>>> tkinter.messagebox" or "from tkinter import messagebox" would be the
>>> recommended way to use this module.
>>
>>
>> Well, I found the tkinter documentation to be sparse in the extreme
>> (https://docs.python.org/release/3.1.3/library/tkinter.html), and it
>> certainly doesn't go into that sort of detail.
>
> You're looking at an ancient version of the docs. Here's the newest docs:
>
> https://docs.python.org/3/library/tkinter.html
>
> Up the top, it says to start with "import tkinter" or "from tkinter
> import *", and then it lists some *other modules* (including
> "tkinter.messagebox"). Obviously with the "turtle" module, you have to
> import that separately (it's completely outside the tkinter
> hierarchy); the same is true of the others.
>
> Incidentally, this message is visible in the 3.1.3 docs that you
> linked to, too. But I still recommend reading the current docs (unless
> you're actually running your code on 3.1.3, in which case you really
> REALLY should upgrade).
>
> ChrisA
>

As I happen to be playing with tkinter I was searching literally minutes 
ago for the way to put a grid onto a notebook tab.  Regrettably the 
notebook grid is conspicious by its absence from the docs :(

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Mark Lawrence