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From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: importing
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 04:38:27 +1100
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On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 4:23 AM, Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org> wrote:
> 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.

You're looking at an ancient version of the docs. Here's the newest docs:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/tkinter.html

Up the top, it says to start with "import tkinter" or "from tkinter
import *", and then it lists some *other modules* (including
"tkinter.messagebox"). Obviously with the "turtle" module, you have to
import that separately (it's completely outside the tkinter
hierarchy); the same is true of the others.

Incidentally, this message is visible in the 3.1.3 docs that you
linked to, too. But I still recommend reading the current docs (unless
you're actually running your code on 3.1.3, in which case you really
REALLY should upgrade).

ChrisA