[Tutor] educational

[Ben Finney]

Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com> writes:

> On 09/03/14 19:56, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Now all I need is for the Tkinter-using community to change itself
> > to fix this confusing practice [‘from tkinter import *’]. I won't
> > hold my breath.
>
> I don't find everyone in the Tkinter community using from tkinter
> import *, quite a few use normal practice.

Then they are not following the advice of the documentation
<URL:http://docs.python.org/3/library/tkinter.html>, which explicitly
recommends ‘from tkinter import *’.

It's also prevalent in third-party <URL:http://effbot.org/tkinterbook/>
<URL:http://www.tkdocs.com/> documents which are referenced from the
official documentation.

This one <URL:http://infohost.nmt.edu/tcc/help/pubs/tkinter/web/> does
at least get it right. If ‘import tkinter as tk’ were to become the norm
in official and third-party documentation, I'd agree the problem would
be solved at that point.

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Ben Finney