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Thanks to all who replied to my cry for help; I understand it better 
now. But:

On 07/03/16 16:08, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
> The documentation should tell you what you need to import to make
> something work. In this case, I would guess that "import
> tkinter.messagebox" or "from tkinter import messagebox" would be the
> recommended way to use this module.

Well, I found the tkinter documentation to be sparse in the extreme 
(https://docs.python.org/release/3.1.3/library/tkinter.html), and it 
certainly doesn't go into that sort of detail.

However, more generally, how am I supposed to know that a module is part 
of a package, and needs a "magic" stanza to get a module loaded?

Cheers,
-- 
Tony van der Hoff        | mailto:tony@vanderhoff.org
Buckinghamshire, England |