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authorMiss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>2021-08-23 19:22:29 (GMT)
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bpo-42560: add warning to Tkinter docs about outdated pre-8.5 documentation online (GH-27836)
Co-authored-by: Ɓukasz Langa <lukasz@langa.pl> Co-authored-by: E-Paine <63801254+E-Paine@users.noreply.github.com> (cherry picked from commit 1eb451031a64b4f28d737ee7f394252ae9a76118) Co-authored-by: Mark Roseman <mark@markroseman.com>
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@@ -29,6 +29,13 @@ make the experience more pythonic. This documentation will concentrate on these
additions and changes, and refer to the official Tcl/Tk documentation for
details that are unchanged.
+.. note::
+
+ Tcl/Tk 8.5 (2007) introduced a modern set of themed user interface components
+ along with a new API to use them. Both old and new APIs are still available.
+ Most documentation you will find online still uses the old API and
+ can be woefully outdated.
+
.. seealso::
* `TkDocs <http://tkdocs.com/>`_