[stdlib-sig] tkinter package idea

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 2008-02-20 21:16, Brett Cannon wrote:
> On Feb 20, 2008 5:14 AM, Ron Adam <rrr at ronadam.com> wrote:
>>
>> M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>>> On 2008-02-20 11:05, Brett Cannon wrote:
>>>> While I would rather have a tk package (heck, I would be fine with
>>>> ditching Tkinter entirely, but I really don't see that happening), but
>>>> the Tkinter name is so wide-spread I don't think that is reasonable.
>>> Hey, it's Py3k...
>> + 1

My reply was meant to say: it's P3k, so we're allowed to make changes
even if a module name is in wide-spread use. Besides, we're not
breaking the code itself.

> Is that for the removal or the package name of tk? Question applies to
> MAL as well as I forgot to ask that of him when he made the Py3K
> comment.
> 
>>>> So here is my current thinking:
>>>>
>>>> Tkinter -> tkinter.__init__
>> Possibly
>>
>>     Tkinter -> tk.tkinter
>>
>> and have tk.__init__ import it with "from tk.tkinter import *"?
> 
> I would rather do tk.inter than that amount of repetition in the
> package/module name.

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