help with tkinter

Rob Walton rwalton00 at gmail.com
Sat Aug 10 10:12:33 EDT 2019


Doubly agreed. Avoid import * as it makes the code a nightmare to reason
about later amongst other things

On Fri, 9 Aug 2019 at 20:02, Peter J. Holzer <hjp-python at hjp.at> wrote:

> On 2019-08-09 12:43:45 -0600, Michael Torrie wrote:
> > On 8/9/19 4:52 AM, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
> > > You didn't import 'tkinter', you imported all symbols ('*') from
> > > tkinter. So, since you imported colorchooser, you can call
> > > colorchooser.askcolor() (not tkinter.colorchooser.askcolor())
> >
> > The better thing to do is remove the import * line and just "import
> > tkinter" and then make sure all your calls to tkinter objects are fully
> > qualified with the "tkinter." part like you've already been doing.
>
> Agreed.
>
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