René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Improve test coverage of tkinter","articleBody":"### Feature or enhancement\n\nLarge parts of the :mod:`tkinter` public API have little or no direct test coverage.  Widget *configuration options* are tested fairly thoroughly via the ``AbstractWidgetTest`` framework in ``Lib/test/test_tkinter/test_widgets.py``, but many *widget methods* and the per-element configuration surfaces (tags, embedded images and windows, marks, etc.) are not exercised at all.\n\nFor example, before this issue ``test_text.py`` tested only a handful of ``Text`` methods (``debug``, ``search``, ``search_all``, ``count``), leaving indices, content manipulation, marks, tags, undo/redo, dump, embedded images and windows, peers, geometry and the tag/image/window configuration options untested.\n\nThe goal is to incrementally add tests for the untested tkinter API, widget by widget and method by method:\n\n* `Text` — methods and tag/image/window option configuration (in progress).\n* `Canvas` — items, tags, coords, scanning, postscript, and item options.\n* `Listbox`, `Entry`, `Spinbox`, `Menu` — selection, indices, item options.\n* `Misc`/`Wm` — window manager, clipboard, selection, grab, event and ``winfo`` methods.\n* Geometry managers (``pack``/``place``/``grid``) query methods.\n* `ttk` widgets, ``Style``, ``Treeview``.\n\nThis complements the related audit of Tk commands that are only partially wrapped by tkinter.\n\n### Links to previous discussion\n\nRelated to the recent tkinter documentation overhaul (gh-86726).\n\n\u003c!-- gh-linked-prs --\u003e\n### Linked PRs\n* gh-151681\n* gh-151683\n* gh-151685\n* gh-151686\n* gh-151687\n* gh-151702\n* gh-151705\n* gh-151709\n* gh-151710\n* gh-151711\n* gh-151712\n* gh-151713\n* gh-151714\n* gh-151715\n* gh-151716\n* gh-151717\n* gh-151718\n* gh-151725\n* gh-151726\n* gh-151727\n* gh-151732\n* gh-151736\n* gh-151737\n* gh-151738\n* gh-151739\n* gh-151741\n* gh-151742\n* gh-151743\n* gh-151751\n* gh-151753\n* gh-151754\n* gh-151755\n* gh-151756\n* gh-151759\n* gh-151760\n* gh-151761\n* gh-151780\n* gh-151781\n* gh-151782\n* gh-151790\n* gh-151791\n* gh-151792\n* gh-151793\n* gh-151794\n* gh-151795\n* gh-151796\n* gh-151797\n* gh-151799\n* gh-151800\n* gh-151801\n* gh-151802\n* gh-151803\n* gh-151804\n* gh-151805\n* gh-151806\n* gh-151807\n* gh-151856\n* gh-151859\n* gh-151860\n* gh-151869\n* gh-151960\n* gh-151963\n* gh-151964\n* gh-151965\n* gh-152362\n* gh-152367\n* gh-152368\n* gh-152369\n\u003c!-- /gh-linked-prs --\u003e\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/serhiy-storchaka","@type":"Person","name":"serhiy-storchaka"},"datePublished":"2026-06-18T22:08:22.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":1},"url":"https://github.com/151678/cpython/issues/151678"}