Identifying tkinter version [ANSWERED]

[Terry Reedy]

On 4/1/2020 2:47 PM, Christian Gollwitzer wrote:
> Am 01.04.20 um 19:22 schrieb Rich Shepard:
>> On Wed, 1 Apr 2020, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
>>
>>>> How do I determine the installed version?
>>>>>> import tkinter
>>>>>> tkinter.TkVersion
>>> 8.6
>>
>> Thanks, Tony. I was close, but still too far away.
> 
> This only shows you the major version. There have been many updates to 
> Tcl/Tk in "minor" releases, including lots of rework on Tk internals. 
> Therefore, you need the patchlevel. YOu can get this by
> 
> root.eval('info patchlevel')
> 
> Apfelkiste:Test chris$ python3
> Python 3.6.1 |Anaconda 4.4.0 (x86_64)| (default, May 11 2017, 13:04:09)
> [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 6.0 (clang-600.0.57)] on darwin
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>  >>> import tkinter
>  >>> root=tkinter.Tk()
>  >>> root.eval('info patchlevel')
> '8.5.9'

Or run IDLE, select Help > About IDLE and the patchlevel is displayed.


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Terry Jan Reedy