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-rw-r--r--Lib/tkinter/tix.py6
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS3
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/tkinter/tix.py b/Lib/tkinter/tix.py
index f3eb92e..e7cb10a 100644
--- a/Lib/tkinter/tix.py
+++ b/Lib/tkinter/tix.py
@@ -926,7 +926,11 @@ class HList(TixWidget, XView, YView):
return self.tk.call(self._w, 'header', 'cget', col, opt)
def header_exists(self, col):
- return self.tk.call(self._w, 'header', 'exists', col)
+ # A workaround to Tix library bug (issue #25464).
+ # The documented command is "exists", but only erroneous "exist" is
+ # accepted.
+ return self.tk.getboolean(self.tk.call(self._w, 'header', 'exist', col))
+ header_exist = header_exists
def header_delete(self, col):
self.tk.call(self._w, 'header', 'delete', col)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 3f3b995..5f00520 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ Core and Builtins
Library
-------
+- Issue #25464: Fixed HList.header_exists() in tkinter.tix module by addin
+ a workaround to Tix library bug.
+
- Issue #28488: shutil.make_archive() no longer adds entry "./" to ZIP archive.
- Issue #25953: re.sub() now raises an error for invalid numerical group