Make Pack.newinfo() return a dict

diff --git a/Lib/lib-tk/Tkinter.py b/Lib/lib-tk/Tkinter.py
index c05704ec2c1026feb0cdac298d647600aa05c981..d0d93ed45948f2d099e43524983d16c2019c9fea 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/lib-tk/Tkinter.py
+++ b/Lib/lib-tk/Tkinter.py
@@ -552,7 +552,16 @@ class Pack:
        def forget(self):
                self.tk.call('pack', 'forget', self._w)
        def newinfo(self):
-               return self.tk.call('pack', 'newinfo', self._w)
+               words = self.tk.splitlist(
+                       self.tk.call('pack', 'newinfo', self._w))
+               dict = {}
+               for i in range(0, len(words), 2):
+                       key = words[i][1:]
+                       value = words[i+1]
+                       if value[0] == '.':
+                               value = self._nametowidget(value)
+                       dict[key] = value
+               return dict
        info = newinfo
        def propagate(self, boolean=None):
                if boolean:

diff --git a/Lib/tkinter/Tkinter.py b/Lib/tkinter/Tkinter.py
index c05704ec2c1026feb0cdac298d647600aa05c981..d0d93ed45948f2d099e43524983d16c2019c9fea 100755 (executable)
--- a/Lib/tkinter/Tkinter.py
+++ b/Lib/tkinter/Tkinter.py
@@ -552,7 +552,16 @@ class Pack:
        def forget(self):
                self.tk.call('pack', 'forget', self._w)
        def newinfo(self):
-               return self.tk.call('pack', 'newinfo', self._w)
+               words = self.tk.splitlist(
+                       self.tk.call('pack', 'newinfo', self._w))
+               dict = {}
+               for i in range(0, len(words), 2):
+                       key = words[i][1:]
+                       value = words[i+1]
+                       if value[0] == '.':
+                               value = self._nametowidget(value)
+                       dict[key] = value
+               return dict
        info = newinfo
        def propagate(self, boolean=None):
                if boolean: