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  r68012 | martin.v.loewis | 2008-12-29 17:27:13 +0100 (Mo, 29 Dez 2008) | 9 lines

  Merged revisions 68010 via svnmerge from
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    r68010 | martin.v.loewis | 2008-12-29 17:22:25 +0100 (Mo, 29 Dez 2008) | 2 lines

    Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
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Lib/tkinter/colorchooser.py

@@ -34,19 +34,22 @@ class Chooser(Dialog):
         try:
             # make sure initialcolor is a tk color string
             color = self.options["initialcolor"]
-            if type(color) == type(()):
+            if isinstance(color, tuple):
                 # assume an RGB triplet
                 self.options["initialcolor"] = "#%02x%02x%02x" % color
         except KeyError:
             pass
 
     def _fixresult(self, widget, result):
+        # result can be somethings: an empty tuple, an empty string or
+        # a Tcl_Obj, so this somewhat weird check handles that
+        if not result or not str(result):
+            return None, None # canceled
+
         # to simplify application code, the color chooser returns
         # an RGB tuple together with the Tk color string
-        if not result:
-            return None, None # canceled
         r, g, b = widget.winfo_rgb(result)
-        return (r/256, g/256, b/256), result
+        return (r/256, g/256, b/256), str(result)
 
 
 #
@@ -66,5 +69,4 @@ def askcolor(color = None, **options):
 # test stuff
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
-
     print("color", askcolor())

Misc/NEWS

@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
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+- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
+
 - Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
 
 - Issue #4574: reading an UTF16-encoded text file crashes if \r on 64-char