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Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:41:36 +1000
Subject: Re: Ubuntu package "python3" does not include tkinter
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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