# HG changeset patch
# User Mark Lawrence
# Date 1369067258 -3600
# Node ID b9826578d0d6ad4b6fe13d48507542e432be3d6f
# Parent  6d2f0edb0758a24bb7c2018210f0384217cc3c72
Issue 734176 make tkinter nametowidget work with cloned menu widgets

diff -r 6d2f0edb0758 -r b9826578d0d6 Lib/tkinter/__init__.py
--- a/Lib/tkinter/__init__.py	Mon May 20 10:33:27 2013 -0400
+++ b/Lib/tkinter/__init__.py	Mon May 20 17:27:38 2013 +0100
@@ -1129,6 +1129,12 @@
         """Return the Tkinter instance of a widget identified by
         its Tcl name NAME."""
         name = str(name).split('.')
+        if '#' in name[-1]:
+            # This is a cloned menu, only the final widget in the split list
+            # is needed to retrieve it. Cloned menus have one or more '#'s
+            # where there would be '.'s instead, to indicate they are cloned
+            # menus.
+            name = (name[-1].split("#")[-1], )
         w = self
 
         if not name[0]: