[3.13] gh-86726: Fix the documented return type of tkinter info_patchlevel() (GH-151655) (GH-151660)

serhiy-storchaka · claude · web-flow · commit aae671d484d5 · 2026-06-18T14:44:23.000Z
It returns a sys.version_info-like named tuple, not a string. (cherry picked from commit 3cd02a1) Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
diff --git a/Doc/library/tkinter.rst b/Doc/library/tkinter.rst
@@ -2299,7 +2299,13 @@ Base and mixin classes
 
    .. method:: info_patchlevel()
 
-      Return the Tcl/Tk patch level as a string, for example ``'8.6.15'``.
+      Return the Tcl/Tk patch level as a named tuple with the same five fields
+      as :data:`sys.version_info`: *major*, *minor*, *micro*, *releaselevel*
+      and *serial*.
+      *releaselevel* is ``'alpha'``, ``'beta'`` or ``'final'``.
+      Converting it to a string gives the version in the usual Tcl/Tk notation,
+      for example ``'9.0.3'`` for a final release or ``'9.1b2'`` for a
+      pre-release.
 
       .. versionadded:: 3.11
 
