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Tkinter GUI Application Development Blueprints
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Tkinter GUI Application Development Blueprints

by Bhaskar Chaudhary
November 2015
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
340 pages
7h 29m
English
Packt Publishing
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The class hierarchy of Tkinter

As programmers, we hardly need to understand the class hierarchy of Tkinter. After all, we have been able to code all the applications so far without bothering about the overall class hierarchy. However, knowing the class hierarchy enables us to trace the origin of a method within the source code or source documentation of a method.

In order to understand the class hierarchy of Tkinter, let's take a look at the source code of Tkinter. On Windows installation, the source code of Tkinter is located at path\of\Python\Installation\Lib\tkinter\. On my Ubuntu machine, the source code is located at /usr/lib/python3.4/tkinter/.

When you open the __init__.py file from this folder in a code editor and look at its list of class ...

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