René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Modernize the older prose sections of the tkinter documentation","articleBody":"# Feature or enhancement\n\nFollow-up of gh-86726.\n\nThe tkinter reference section was thoroughly overhauled and now documents the full public API accurately (gh-86726 and the fixes in #153549). The narrative sections that precede it — **\"Tkinter life preserver\"** and **\"Handy reference\"** in `Doc/library/tkinter.rst` — were not part of that pass and still read like a late-1990s tutorial. This issue tracks bringing them up to the same standard.\n\nThey are not factually wrong, so this is editorial, not a bug fix. The base-widget teaching examples should stay where they illustrate core concepts; the goal is to refresh tone, drop dated references, and cross-link to the now-complete reference.\n\nConcrete items:\n\n- [ ] Classic non-themed examples (e.g. `Button(self, fg=\"red\", bg=\"blue\")`, the packer and window-manager walkthroughs) give no pointer to the ttk widgets the introduction recommends. Add cross-references or themed equivalents.\n- [ ] Remove the page-number citations to Ousterhout's *Tcl and the Tk Toolkit* (\"page 160\", \"page 183\", \"page 201\") — they refer to one print edition.\n- [ ] Review the dated external links (the Shipman *Tkinter 8.5 reference* and the SourceForge *\"Converting to Tile widgets\"* monograph).\n- [ ] Reconcile the informal **\"Tk option data types\"** and **\"Packer options\"** lists with the now-comprehensive reference — deduplicate and cross-link.\n- [ ] Give **\"Bindings and events\"** and **\"The index parameter\"** a consistency pass to match the reference.\n\nOut of scope: no API changes.\n\n\n\u003c!-- gh-linked-prs --\u003e\n### Linked PRs\n* gh-153642\n* gh-153647\n\u003c!-- /gh-linked-prs --\u003e\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/serhiy-storchaka","@type":"Person","name":"serhiy-storchaka"},"datePublished":"2026-07-11T09:18:20.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":0},"url":"https://github.com/153550/cpython/issues/153550"}