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[Python-Dev] Tkinter problems with Tcl/Tk 8.5

[Python-Dev] Tkinter problems with Tcl/Tk 8.5"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sun Dec 16 12:13:02 CET 2007
> It also has been suggested by some on the Tcl core team (during  
> discussions about this bug) that you probably shouldn't be using  
> Tcl_GetObjType and relying on the registered Tcl_ObjTypes, however I'm  
> not sure of a way to get what you need otherwise.

Hi George,

I hope I can find some time next week to look into this in more detail,
but please let me respond to this first.

In Python, objects have a fixed type, given to them at the point of
creation. Also, it is common in Python to use multiple types, not
just a single one (say, string). So to convert between Tcl objects
and Python objects, we would like to preserve type information as
much as possible.

To do that, _tkinter has two functions: AsObj (converting PyObject
to Tcl_Obj), and FromObj (converting Tcl_Obj to PyObj). We map
the well-known (registered) types 1:1 to appropriate Python types,
and have a default for the rest.

If Tcl_GetObjType was not available, I see no other way but to
convert everything through strings, which would put the burden
of typing things onto the Tkinter user (or perhaps on Tkinter,
to type the well-known commands).

Regards,
Martin


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