[issue44481] Tkinter config() minor documentation bug for shorthand options

[Jeff S]

New submission from Jeff S <spirko at gmail.com>:

The documentation page https://docs.python.org/3/library/tkinter.html states "Passing the config() method the name of a shorthand option will return a 2-tuple, not 5-tuple."  While config() without argument does return a map that yields references like this, if config() is given the shorthand name as an argument, it follows the reference to the long option name and does yield the full 5-tuple.

To demonstrate the difference:

from tkinter import Tk

Tk().config()['bg']

Tk().config('bg')

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components: Tkinter
messages: 396301
nosy: spirko
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Tkinter config() minor documentation bug for shorthand options
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.6, Python 3.9

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