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Re: Ubuntu package "python3" does not include tkinter

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Date 2013-04-23 16:41 +1000
Subject Re: Ubuntu package "python3" does not include tkinter
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.954.1366699299.3114.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Bob Martin <bob.martin@excite.com> wrote:
> 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.

30 years ago, people weren't using Tk. We've moved on beyond worrying
about the odd kilobyte of space. (Also, I think you're talking RAM,
and Steven was talking hard disk. Systems can easily have another SI
unit of disk than memory.)

ChrisA

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  Re: Ubuntu package "python3" does not include tkinter Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2013-04-19 13:25 -0400
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                Re: Ubuntu package "python3" does not include tkinter Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2013-04-22 14:52 +0200
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              Re: Ubuntu package "python3" does not include tkinter Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2013-04-22 22:09 +0100
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                Re: Ubuntu package "python3" does not include tkinter Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2013-04-23 07:44 +0100
                Re: Ubuntu package "python3" does not include tkinter rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-04-23 05:01 -0700
              Re: Ubuntu package "python3" does not include tkinter Bob Martin <bob.martin@excite.com> - 2013-04-23 07:33 +0100
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                Re: Ubuntu package "python3" does not include tkinter Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2013-04-23 07:48 +0100
                Re: Ubuntu package "python3" does not include tkinter Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-04-23 17:34 +1000
            Re: Ubuntu package "python3" does not include tkinter lcrocker <leedanielcrocker@gmail.com> - 2013-04-22 04:18 -0700
              Re: Ubuntu package "python3" does not include tkinter rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-04-22 05:08 -0700
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