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Re: How do you use the widgets in tkinter.ttk if you want to "import tkinter as tk"?

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On 3/2/2012 8:48 PM, John Salerno wrote:
> According to the Python docs, the way to use tkinter.ttk is this:
>
> from tkinter import *
> from tkinter.ttk import *

I suppose the 'advantage' of this is that it will replace tk widgets 
with equivalent ttk widgets, if they exist and have the same name. I 
believe one has to program them differently, however, so the replacement 
cannot be transparent and one mush know anyway what gets replaced and 
what not.

> But what if I don't like this import method and prefer to do:
>
> import tkinter as tk
>
> How then do I utilize tkinter.ttk using the same name?
 > Or is that not possible? Will I have to use to separate names, like this:

No. One name for one object.

> import tkinter as tk
> import tkinter.ttk as ttk

Yes

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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How do you use the widgets in tkinter.ttk if you want to "import tkinter as tk"? John Salerno <johnjsal@gmail.com> - 2012-03-02 17:48 -0800
  Re: How do you use the widgets in tkinter.ttk if you want to "import tkinter as tk"? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-03-02 21:47 -0500
    Re: How do you use the widgets in tkinter.ttk if you want to "import tkinter as tk"? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2012-03-03 14:34 +1100
    Re: How do you use the widgets in tkinter.ttk if you want to "import tkinter as tk"? John Salerno <johnjsal@gmail.com> - 2012-03-02 21:06 -0800
      Re: How do you use the widgets in tkinter.ttk if you want to "import tkinter as tk"? Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2012-03-04 17:39 -0800
        Re: How do you use the widgets in tkinter.ttk if you want to "import tkinter as tk"? Westley Martínez <anikom15@gmail.com> - 2012-03-04 18:04 -0800
        Re: How do you use the widgets in tkinter.ttk if you want to "import tkinter as tk"? John Salerno <johnjsal@gmail.com> - 2012-03-04 21:53 -0800
      Re: How do you use the widgets in tkinter.ttk if you want to "import tkinter as tk"? Kevin Walzer <kw@codebykevin.com> - 2012-03-04 20:58 -0500
    Re: How do you use the widgets in tkinter.ttk if you want to "import tkinter as tk"? John Salerno <johnjsal@gmail.com> - 2012-03-02 21:06 -0800

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