Feature or enhancement
Follow-up of gh-86726.
The tkinter reference section was thoroughly overhauled and now documents the full public API accurately (gh-86726 and the fixes in #153549). The narrative sections that precede it — "Tkinter life preserver" and "Handy reference" in Doc/library/tkinter.rst — were not part of that pass and still read like a late-1990s tutorial. This issue tracks bringing them up to the same standard.
They are not factually wrong, so this is editorial, not a bug fix. The base-widget teaching examples should stay where they illustrate core concepts; the goal is to refresh tone, drop dated references, and cross-link to the now-complete reference.
Concrete items:
Out of scope: no API changes.
Feature or enhancement
Follow-up of gh-86726.
The tkinter reference section was thoroughly overhauled and now documents the full public API accurately (gh-86726 and the fixes in #153549). The narrative sections that precede it — "Tkinter life preserver" and "Handy reference" in
Doc/library/tkinter.rst— were not part of that pass and still read like a late-1990s tutorial. This issue tracks bringing them up to the same standard.They are not factually wrong, so this is editorial, not a bug fix. The base-widget teaching examples should stay where they illustrate core concepts; the goal is to refresh tone, drop dated references, and cross-link to the now-complete reference.
Concrete items:
Button(self, fg="red", bg="blue"), the packer and window-manager walkthroughs) give no pointer to the ttk widgets the introduction recommends. Add cross-references or themed equivalents.Out of scope: no API changes.