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  r78988 | matthias.klose | 2010-03-16 11:48:52 +0100 (Tue, 16 Mar 2010) | 3 lines

  - Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
    with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/tkinter/messagebox.py b/Lib/tkinter/messagebox.py
index c9349567f8..5c35d5adba 100644
--- a/Lib/tkinter/messagebox.py
+++ b/Lib/tkinter/messagebox.py
@@ -70,11 +70,13 @@ def _show(title=None, message=None, _icon=None, _type=None, **options):
     if title:   options["title"] = title
     if message: options["message"] = message
     res = Message(**options).show()
-    # In some Tcl installations, Tcl converts yes/no into a boolean
+    # In some Tcl installations, yes/no is converted into a boolean.
     if isinstance(res, bool):
-        if res: return YES
+        if res:
+            return YES
         return NO
-    return res
+    # In others we get a Tcl_Obj.
+    return str(res)
 
 def showinfo(title=None, message=None, **options):
     "Show an info message"