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kevin_thibedeau • yesterday at 10:31 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

It's not really ported. tkinter just builds a full Tcl interpreter as a Python extension and passes command strings over to it. This is the use case Tcl was designed for. You can get access to the underlying Tcl instance and issue non-Tk commands.


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bch • yesterday at 11:10 PM

Technically correct (the best kind of "correct").

My next question to myself was what hardware was running Tcl in c.1997 Cisco equipment? What porting effort was required? I understand there was some proprietary feature work for Cisco IOS, but I don't know what architectural work was required.