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I have a script where I want to use a message box for the occasional interactive question

# python 3.1
from tkinter import *
from tkinter import ttk
from tkinter import messagebox
answer = messagebox.askyesno(message="Are you thinking of the " + "data " + "?"
                             ,icon='question' ,title="My guess"

when I run this, I get the message box. I also get a blank tk window, which does not disappear when the message box is dismissed. Is there any way to avoid this?

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Member Avatar for woooee

Use root.withdraw

from tkinter import *
##from tkinter import ttk
from tkinter import messagebox

root = Tk()
root.withdraw()
answer = messagebox.askyesno(message="Are you thinking of the " + "data " + "?"
                             ,icon='question' ,title="My guess")
print(answer)
Member Avatar for timrichardson

Thanks, that's great! How do you learn ttk properly?

Member Avatar for vegaseat

Python31 includes the Tkinter Tile extension module ttk.

Ttk comes with 17 widgets, 11 of which already exist in Tkinter:
Button, Checkbutton, Entry, Frame, Label, LabelFrame, Menubutton,
PanedWindow, Radiobutton, Scale and Scrollbar

The 6 new widget classes are:
Combobox, Notebook, Progressbar, Separator, Sizegrip and Treeview

You have to do some detective work on file
C:/Python31/Lib/tkinter/test/test_ttk/test_widgets.py
to figure out how these widgets work

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