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From: Bob Martin <bob.martin@excite.com>
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Subject: Re: Ubuntu package "python3" does not include tkinter
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 07:33:56 BST
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in 695509 20130422 081727 Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:

>I think that if you are worrying about the overhead of the tkinter
>bindings for Python, you're guilty of premature optimization. The tkinter
>package in Python 3.3 is trivially small, under 2 MB.

"trivially small"?
30 years ago a small mainframe only had 2MB.