Platform Information¶

This page documents things that can tell you which platform your program is running on.

teek.TCL_VERSION¶

teek.TK_VERSION¶

These can be used for checking the versions of the Tcl interpreter and its Tk library that teek is using. These are two-tuples of integers, and you can compare integer tuples nicely, so you can do e.g. this:

if teek.TK_VERSION >= (8, 6):
    # use a feature new in Tk 8.6
else:
    # show an error message or do things without the new feature

Teek refuses to run if Tcl or Tk is older than 8.5, so you can use all features new in Tcl/Tk 8.5 freely.

Note

The manual page links in this tutorial like label(3tk) always point to the latest manual pages, which are for Tcl/Tk 8.6 at the time of writing this.

teek.windowingsystem()[source]¶

This function returns 'win32', 'aqua' or 'x11'. Use it instead of platform.system() when you have platform-specific teek code. For example, it’s possible to run X11 on a Mac, in which case platform.system() returns 'Darwin' and this function returns 'x11'. If you have code that should even then behave like it would normally behave on a Mac, use platform.system().

The Tk documentation for this function is tk windowingsystem in tk(3tk).