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Re: Tkinter: Why aren't my widgets expanding when I resize the window?

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On Monday, March 5, 2012 7:10:50 PM UTC-6, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 14:07:05 -0800, John Salerno quoted:
> 
> >> Wah!
> >> 
> >> Stop whining and act like a professional! You complain about qualifying
> >> constants but you happily type "self" until your fingers bleed without
> >> even a whimper???
> 
> John, it is polite to leave attributions in place when you quote 
> somebody. I don't know who you are quoting above, but given the obnoxious 
> tone and the fact that this is about Tkinter, I'm guessing it is 
> RantingRick, a.k.a. Rick Johnson.
> 
> Rick is a notorious troll, and you'll probably save yourself a lot of 
> grief if you pay no attention to him. It's not so much that his advice is 
> *always* bad, but that you'll spend so many hours sifting through the 
> piles of bad advice, unprofessional language, and annoying self-
> aggrandisement for the occasional nugget of gold that it just isn't worth 
> it.
> 
> Which is a pity, because I gather that Rick actually does know Tkinter 
> well. But dealing with him is like wrestling with a pig: 
> 
> "I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
> besides, the pig likes it." -- George Bernard Shaw
> 
> 
> -- 
> Steven

Thank you. Sorry about the attribution. That was my fault because I was trying to cite just the relevant bits, and I cut off the header too.

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Tkinter: Why aren't my widgets expanding when I resize the window? John Salerno <johnjsal@gmail.com> - 2012-03-04 23:12 -0800
  Re: Tkinter: Why aren't my widgets expanding when I resize the window? Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2012-03-05 05:09 -0800
    Re: Tkinter: Why aren't my widgets expanding when I resize the window? John Salerno <johnjsal@gmail.com> - 2012-03-05 09:31 -0800
      Re: Tkinter: Why aren't my widgets expanding when I resize the window? Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2012-03-05 11:03 -0800
        Re: Tkinter: Why aren't my widgets expanding when I resize the window? John Salerno <johnjsal@gmail.com> - 2012-03-05 14:07 -0800
          Re: Tkinter: Why aren't my widgets expanding when I resize the window? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-03-06 01:10 +0000
            Re: Tkinter: Why aren't my widgets expanding when I resize the window? John Salerno <johnjsal@gmail.com> - 2012-03-05 17:53 -0800
            Re: Tkinter: Why aren't my widgets expanding when I resize the window? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-06 01:58 +0000
            Re: Tkinter: Why aren't my widgets expanding when I resize the window? Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2012-03-05 18:20 -0800
              Re: Tkinter: Why aren't my widgets expanding when I resize the window? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-06 02:33 +0000
                Re: Tkinter: Why aren't my widgets expanding when I resize the window? Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2012-03-05 18:56 -0800
                Re: Tkinter: Why aren't my widgets expanding when I resize the window? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-06 03:09 +0000
  Re: Tkinter: Why aren't my widgets expanding when I resize the window? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-03-05 12:25 -0500

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