Fixed issue #5193: Guarantee that Tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
diff --git a/Lib/lib-tk/Tkinter.py b/Lib/lib-tk/Tkinter.py
index 53249e7..3cce276 100644
--- a/Lib/lib-tk/Tkinter.py
+++ b/Lib/lib-tk/Tkinter.py
@@ -3046,7 +3046,7 @@
args.append(pattern)
args.append(index)
if stopindex: args.append(stopindex)
- return self.tk.call(tuple(args))
+ return str(self.tk.call(tuple(args)))
def see(self, index):
"""Scroll such that the character at INDEX is visible."""
self.tk.call(self._w, 'see', index)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 13ace63..0e88f1d 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -168,6 +168,8 @@
Library
-------
+- Issue #5193: Guarantee that Tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
+
- Issue #5394: removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
Original patch by Akira Kitada.