Re: More Tkinter questions

Guido.van.Rossum@cwi.nl
Wed, 08 Jun 1994 10:06:14 +0200

> The Tk `send' command is a very ugly hack. I'd hate to see it used
> in Python.

Why is it an ugly hack? It seems a very neat way to control one
application from another. Only problem I've seen with it so far is
that after a while "winfo interps" (used by the rmt demo e.g.) seems
to return a number of ghosts (names of applications that have long
died).

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