Issue #15133: _tkinter.tkapp.getboolean() now supports Tcl_Obj and always

returns bool.  tkinter.BooleanVar now validates input values (accepted bool,
int, str, and Tcl_Obj).  tkinter.BooleanVar.get() now always returns bool.

Lib/tkinter/__init__.py

@@ -391,6 +391,11 @@ class BooleanVar(Variable):
         """
         Variable.__init__(self, master, value, name)
 
+    def set(self, value):
+        """Set the variable to VALUE."""
+        return self._tk.globalsetvar(self._name, self._tk.getboolean(value))
+    initialize = set
+
     def get(self):
         """Return the value of the variable as a bool."""
         try:

Lib/tkinter/test/test_tkinter/test_variables.py

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import unittest
 
-from tkinter import Variable, StringVar, IntVar, DoubleVar, BooleanVar, Tcl
+from tkinter import (Variable, StringVar, IntVar, DoubleVar, BooleanVar, Tcl,
+                     TclError)
 
 
 class Var(Variable):
@@ -159,16 +160,41 @@ class TestBooleanVar(TestBase):
 
     def test_default(self):
         v = BooleanVar(self.root)
-        self.assertEqual(False, v.get())
+        self.assertIs(v.get(), False)
 
     def test_get(self):
         v = BooleanVar(self.root, True, "name")
-        self.assertAlmostEqual(True, v.get())
+        self.assertIs(v.get(), True)
         self.root.globalsetvar("name", "0")
-        self.assertAlmostEqual(False, v.get())
+        self.assertIs(v.get(), False)
+        self.root.globalsetvar("name", 42 if self.root.wantobjects() else 1)
+        self.assertIs(v.get(), True)
+        self.root.globalsetvar("name", 0)
+        self.assertIs(v.get(), False)
+        self.root.globalsetvar("name", "on")
+        self.assertIs(v.get(), True)
+
+    def test_set(self):
+        true = 1 if self.root.wantobjects() else "1"
+        false = 0 if self.root.wantobjects() else "0"
+        v = BooleanVar(self.root, name="name")
+        v.set(True)
+        self.assertEqual(self.root.globalgetvar("name"), true)
+        v.set("0")
+        self.assertEqual(self.root.globalgetvar("name"), false)
+        v.set(42)
+        self.assertEqual(self.root.globalgetvar("name"), true)
+        v.set(0)
+        self.assertEqual(self.root.globalgetvar("name"), false)
+        v.set("on")
+        self.assertEqual(self.root.globalgetvar("name"), true)
 
     def test_invalid_value_domain(self):
+        false = 0 if self.root.wantobjects() else "0"
         v = BooleanVar(self.root, name="name")
+        with self.assertRaises(TclError):
+            v.set("value")
+        self.assertEqual(self.root.globalgetvar("name"), false)
         self.root.globalsetvar("name", "value")
         with self.assertRaises(ValueError):
             v.get()

Lib/tkinter/ttk.py

@@ -573,7 +573,7 @@ class Widget(tkinter.Widget):
         if ret and callback:
             return callback(*args, **kw)
 
-        return bool(ret)
+        return ret
 
 
     def state(self, statespec=None):
@@ -681,7 +681,7 @@ class Entry(Widget, tkinter.Entry):
         """Force revalidation, independent of the conditions specified
         by the validate option. Returns False if validation fails, True
         if it succeeds. Sets or clears the invalid state accordingly."""
-        return bool(self.tk.getboolean(self.tk.call(self._w, "validate")))
+        return self.tk.getboolean(self.tk.call(self._w, "validate"))
 
 
 class Combobox(Entry):
@@ -1231,7 +1231,7 @@ class Treeview(Widget, tkinter.XView, tkinter.YView):
     def exists(self, item):
         """Returns True if the specified item is present in the tree,
         False otherwise."""
-        return bool(self.tk.getboolean(self.tk.call(self._w, "exists", item)))
+        return self.tk.getboolean(self.tk.call(self._w, "exists", item))
 
 
     def focus(self, item=None):