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Tkinter demo: show Tcl/Tk patchlevel instead of version #110345
Description
Feature or enhancement
Proposal:
When dealing with issue reports involving Tcl/Tk, it is often much more helpful to know what Tcl/Tk calls the “patchlevel” (e.g. 8.6.13) than what Tcl/Tk calls the “version” (e.g. 8.6), because only the former usually corresponds to individual Tcl/Tk releases (and bugs tend to be fixed between these releases).
The test program in tkinter._test() (as invoked by python3.y -m tkinter) currently shows the Tcl/Tk “version”. So if Tkinter users are consulting this demo to know what Tcl/Tk is on their system when reporting issues, then I believe it would be better for this demo to show the “patchlevel” instead.
Has this already been discussed elsewhere?
This is a minor feature, which does not need previous discussion elsewhere
Links to previous discussion of this feature:
No response
Activity
pythongh-110345: show Tcl/Tk patchlevel in `tkinter._test()`
gh-110345: show Tcl/Tk patchlevel in `tkinter._test()` (GH-110350)
pythongh-110345: show Tcl/Tk patchlevel in `tkinter._test()` (pythonG…
pythongh-110345: show Tcl/Tk patchlevel in `tkinter._test()` (pythonG…
serhiy-storchaka commentedon Jan 18, 2024
Backported because it rather has relation to testing and troubleshooting.
[3.11] gh-110345: show Tcl/Tk patchlevel in `tkinter._test()` (GH-110350
[3.12] gh-110345: show Tcl/Tk patchlevel in `tkinter._test()` (GH-110350
pythongh-110345: show Tcl/Tk patchlevel in `tkinter._test()` (pythonG…
pythongh-110345: show Tcl/Tk patchlevel in `tkinter._test()` (pythonG…
pythongh-110345: show Tcl/Tk patchlevel in `tkinter._test()` (pythonG…