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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 15:14:12 -0700
From: Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us>
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On 10/22/2013 03:06 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> Walter Hurry <walterhurry@lavabit.com> writes:
>
>> However, for a different project I need to get up to a reasonable
>> speed with tkinter. Could some kind soul recommend a suitable on-line
>> tutorial, or a (free) ebook?
>
> TkDocs <URL:http://www.tkdocs.com/> is both a book for purchase (“Modern
> Tkinter”) and a cross-language tutorial for Tk, taking full advantage of
> modern features of Tk 8.5 and 8.6.
>
> The example code attempts to hew quite closely to the original Tcl, so
> it makes for rather awful Python. But you do learn how Tkinter works.

Awesome!  Just bought my copy.  :D

--
~Ethan~