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On 2016-03-07 19:08, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> 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 :(
>
It's in the tkinter.ttk docs:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/tkinter.ttk.html