Restore deleted tkinter functions with deprecaton dummies.

[LitaCho]

BPO	22061
Nosy	@terryjreedy, @serhiy-storchaka
Files	tk_menubar_fix.patch tkinter_restore_empty_methods.patch turtledemo_menu.patch

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assignee = 'https://github.com/serhiy-storchaka'
closed_at = <Date 2014-07-25.10:12:54.627>
created_at = <Date 2014-07-24.21:43:23.770>
labels = ['type-bug', 'expert-tkinter']
title = 'Restore deleted tkinter functions with deprecaton dummies.'
updated_at = <Date 2014-07-25.10:12:54.626>
user = 'https://bugs.python.org/LitaCho'

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[LitaCho]

I updated my source code, and it looks like turtledemo doesn't launch anymore. I get the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/litacho/Development/cpython/Lib/runpy.py", line 170, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", mod_spec)
  File "/Users/litacho/Development/cpython/Lib/runpy.py", line 85, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "/Users/litacho/Development/cpython/Lib/turtledemo/__main__.py", line 328, in <module>
    main()
  File "/Users/litacho/Development/cpython/Lib/turtledemo/__main__.py", line 324, in main
    demo = DemoWindow()
  File "/Users/litacho/Development/cpython/Lib/turtledemo/__main__.py", line 124, in __init__
    self.mBar.tk_menuBar(self.ExamplesBtn, self.OptionsBtn)
AttributeError: 'Frame' object has no attribute 'tk_menuBar'

I dug into it and it looks like tk_menuBar was removed due to a fix in bpo-4350. If tk_menuBar needs to be removed, what method does turtledemo need to call instead to propagate its panels?

[LitaCho]

Looks like this method was not doing anything. I removed it and the demo is working just fine. Here is a patch.

[serhiy-storchaka]

Indeed, unlike to other removed methods which raised an exception, removing this doing nothing method can break existing code. We should restore it and add deprecation warning.

Of course the use of obsolete method should be removed from turtledemo.

[serhiy-storchaka]

Here is a patch which replaces obsolete and non-working menu creation code by modernized code. Now menu should be correctly displayed on MacOS.

[python-dev]

New changeset 3c4d45f73622 by Terry Jan Reedy in branch '2.7':
Issue bpo-22061: remove call of useless function slated for removal.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/3c4d45f73622

New changeset 976f31b2858b by Terry Jan Reedy in branch '3.4':
Issue bpo-22061: remove call of useless function slated for removal.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/976f31b2858b

New changeset 9e9e6e9f4cce by Terry Jan Reedy in branch 'default':
Issue bpo-22061: remove call of useless function slated for removal.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/9e9e6e9f4cce

[terryjreedy]

The turtledemo part of this issue is over. (Lita, tracebacks are not 'crash' issues. Segfaults and the Windows equivalent are.)

The restoration patch could have been attached to 4350. But since it is here, I retitled this issue instead of closing it. Patch looks good to me.

Turtledemo menus are a different issue. I opened bpo-22065 and plan to post a revised patch there.

[serhiy-storchaka]

May be add deprecation warnings in 2.7 and 3.4? This method's calls can be left in existing user code as in turtledemo and this code behaves differently from how it was designed and behaved with Tk <4.0. As far as now this methods are empty, this bug can be unnoticed long time.

[terryjreedy]

Since Deprecation warnings are off by default, backporting seems like a good idea. There was talk on pydev about adding more py3 warnings to 2.7, which this essentially is (though the removal is delated to 3.6).

[python-dev]

New changeset f7c84674bdec by Serhiy Storchaka in branch '2.7':
Issue bpo-22061: Add deprecation warnings in empty obsolete methods.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/f7c84674bdec

New changeset a50297e793f9 by Serhiy Storchaka in branch '3.4':
Issue bpo-22061: Add deprecation warnings in empty obsolete methods.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/a50297e793f9

New changeset 7e6beea0eeab by Serhiy Storchaka in branch 'default':
Issue bpo-22061: Restored empty obsolete methods removed in issue bpo-4350 and
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/7e6beea0eeab