From: Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 20:47:08 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: Issue #25464: Fixed HList.header_exists() in Tix module by adding
X-Git-Tag: v2.7.13rc1~64
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f10006cdb82a27802ec7c9340e59030712d36f29;p=python

Issue #25464: Fixed HList.header_exists() in Tix module by adding
a workaround to Tix library bug.
---

diff --git a/Lib/lib-tk/Tix.py b/Lib/lib-tk/Tix.py
index a7b785e49a..45e8a90374 100644
--- a/Lib/lib-tk/Tix.py
+++ b/Lib/lib-tk/Tix.py
@@ -928,7 +928,11 @@ class HList(TixWidget, XView, YView):
         return self.tk.call(self._w, 'header', 'cget', col, opt)
 
     def header_exists(self,  col):
-        return self.tk.call(self._w, 'header', 'exists', col)
+        # A workaround to Tix library bug (issue #25464).
+        # The documented command is "exists", but only erroneous "exist" is
+        # accepted.
+        return self.tk.getboolean(self.tk.call(self._w, 'header', 'exist', col))
+    header_exist = header_exists
 
     def header_delete(self, col):
         self.tk.call(self._w, 'header', 'delete', col)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index dfe93e3c60..12c3da2b7c 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -60,6 +60,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #25464: Fixed HList.header_exists() in Tix module by adding
+  a workaround to Tix library bug.
+
 - Issue #28488: shutil.make_archive() no longer adds entry "./" to ZIP archive.
 
 - Issue #28480: Fix error building _sqlite3 module when multithreading is