From 2d3aab22d0ef5150eac554a6c6b722cf4153ddab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2026 01:24:03 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] gh-43720: IDLE - use tk text print when available

The new tk print command is available in tk 9.0.  When running
tk 8.6, fall back to old code.
---
 Lib/idlelib/iomenu.py | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/iomenu.py b/Lib/idlelib/iomenu.py
index 9560aaa2da0c42..5abc4efa77126f 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/iomenu.py
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/iomenu.py
@@ -326,6 +326,12 @@ def encode(self, chars):
         return chars.encode('utf-8-sig')
 
     def print_window(self, event):
+        try:
+            self.text.tk.call('tk', 'print', self.text)
+        except tkinter.TclError:
+            self.old_print(event)
+
+    def old_print(self, event):
         confirm = messagebox.askokcancel(
                   title="Print",
                   message="Print to Default Printer",

From f44272d3586e80d81fd9d580e1a8bcc5e9d0f5eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2026 01:29:44 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] blurb

---
 .../next/IDLE/2026-07-15-01-29-18.gh-issue-43720.a2C8SZ.rst      | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
 create mode 100644 Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2026-07-15-01-29-18.gh-issue-43720.a2C8SZ.rst

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2026-07-15-01-29-18.gh-issue-43720.a2C8SZ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2026-07-15-01-29-18.gh-issue-43720.a2C8SZ.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..425ecf1753c0a2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2026-07-15-01-29-18.gh-issue-43720.a2C8SZ.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Use tk text print when running tk 9.0+.  Patch by Terry J. Reedy.