[Python-Dev] Drop/deprecate Tkinter? (original) (raw)

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Wed May 2 21:37:56 EDT 2018

On 5/2/2018 4:51 PM, Ivan Pozdeev via Python-Dev wrote:

As https://bugs.python.org/issue33257

As I report there, the 'crasher' does not crash on my Win 10 with either installed 3.7 or built 3.8.

https://bugs.python.org/issue33316 showed,

nothing about tkinter

Tkinter is broken, for both

One can crash CPython with legal Python code. I don't think that the language community should deprecate and drop CPython ;-).

Py2 and Py3, with both threaded and non-threaded Tcl, since 2002 at least, and no-one gives a damn. The experience of perhaps hundred of thousands of people successfully writing or running tkinter-based programs says otherwise.

This seems to be a testament that very few people are actually interested in or are using it.

It is a testament that most people write sane code, for which tkinter (and Python) work well.

If that is so

But it is not. Tkinter is actively maintained.

there's no use keeping it in the standard library

Ridiculous. All you have done with this post is distract attention from real problems.

-- Terry Jan Reedy

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