I'm ashamed to admit that I just started fiddling with Tkinter.
I discovered that the latest tk/tcl "beta" release doesn't work
with Tkinter, thought I'd pass it on. Use tk3.6 and tcl7.3 instead.
Actually, everything looks great with the beta versions until
Python gets around to exiting... then it seg. faults almost always.
(I got it to not seg fault once by putting a tkinter object inside
a list, rather than directly stored as a var; dunno why that worked.)
-a.
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6th law of kids:
Kids expand to fill all space allotted to them,
and a good deal of space not allotted to them as well.
(from the New Yorker somewhere).