Below is the example as it is.  Currently self.quit clobbers a built-in method of the same name.  I would suggest renaming self.quit to self.quit_button or similar.

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import tkinter as tk

class Application(tk.Frame):
    def __init__(self, master=None):
        super().__init__(master)
        self.master = master
        self.pack()
        self.create_widgets()

    def create_widgets(self):
        self.hi_there = tk.Button(self)
        self.hi_there["text"] = "Hello World\n(click me)"
        self.hi_there["command"] = self.say_hi
        self.hi_there.pack(side="top")

        self.quit = tk.Button(self, text="QUIT", fg="red",
                              command=self.master.destroy)
        self.quit.pack(side="bottom")

    def say_hi(self):
        print("hi there, everyone!")

root = tk.Tk()
app = Application(master=root)
app.mainloop()

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>>> help(app.quit)
Help on method quit in module tkinter:

quit() method of __main__.Application instance
    Quit the Tcl interpreter. All widgets will be destroyed.

I get different result:

>>> app.quit
<tkinter.Button object .!application.!button2>
>>> help(app.quit)
Help on Button in module tkinter object:

class Button(Widget)
 |  Button(master=None, cnf={}, **kw)
 |  
 |  Button widget.
 |  
...

Apologies, my original post was unclear.

The help(app.quit) which I posted is what we should get when the method
isn't clobbered.

What Serhiy has posted is what you get after running the example as-is.  It
shows that after running the example self.quit refers to a button object
instead of the quit method.

On Fri, 27 Aug 2021 at 7:38 pm, Serhiy Storchaka <report@bugs.python.org>
wrote:

>
> Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka+cpython@gmail.com> added the comment:
>
> I get different result:
>
> >>> app.quit
> <tkinter.Button object .!application.!button2>
> >>> help(app.quit)
> Help on Button in module tkinter object:
>
> class Button(Widget)
>  |  Button(master=None, cnf={}, **kw)
>  |
>  |  Button widget.
>  |
> ...
>
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> nosy: +serhiy.storchaka
>
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Thanks for reporting this issue. This was (very) recently fixed in issue42560 / PR27842. These changes include a new hello world example and can be seen in the 3.10 / 3.11 docs (https://docs.python.org/3.10/library/tkinter.html#a-hello-world-program). This change was backported to 3.9 docs, but the build bots have yet to rebuild the version hosted on docs.python.org.

For whatever reason, the 3.9 backport, PR-27911, was closed.  In any case, we will not edit the code we have replaced.

Lyndon, when responding by email, please delete the old text as it is redundant and noisy when your email is added to the web page.