"tkinter"

[Ben Finney]

ram at zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:

>   I presume that "tkinter" is intended to be pronounced
>   "logically":
>
> T K inter (tee kay inter /ti keI In t%/)

This is how I've always pronounced it.

The toolkit in question is named “tk”, which I have only ever known to
be pronounced “tee kay”.

The rest of the word is an abbreviation of “interface”.

So, to me “Tkinter” is pronounced “tee kay inter”.

>   . But it would be faster to pronounce it

Speed at the expense of clarity is a goal difficult to justify in
programming, and is even harder to justify in human speech. So, that
basis doesn't convince me of a useful pronunciation.

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