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Feb 20 / 5:27pm

tkinter Support Module?

Has anybody written a general tkinter assistance module?

I'm thinking of a module that:

  • supplies functions/tools to examine the widget hierarchy from the shell
  • wraps idle binding and .after scheduling, so that you can review bindings (like a task manager), see what's going on, pause/continue (control) idle executions
  • setup Tk & withdraw in 1 call
  • return the full path for a widget
  • standardize access to the text content of Text, Entry, etc.,.
  • ... (and anything else that makes life with tkinter generally easier)


Has anyone created such a thing?

If no one has created one, is there a good reason for that?

I'm somewhat baffled that tkinter has been around for more than a decade, and yet, to my knowledge, nobody has written a module like this.  The tkinter field seems to me to be stuck in time.