Re: Tkinter "Expected boolean value"

From: Mike Abel (Ax10_at_gmx.de)
Date: 11/30/03 

Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 08:10:49 +0100

Grzegorz Dostatni <grzegorz@ee.ualberta.ca> wrote:

> File "/usr/lib/python2.3/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 2310, in selection_present
> return self.tk.getboolean(
> TclError: expected boolean value but got ""

I guess: Tcl needs a boolean value and gets an empty string?

Try to look in this direction.

Mike

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