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This may be the same as what I'm seeing in Demo/tix/tixwidgets.py
Look for image1 in tixwidgets.py: I put the following comment in the code:

    # This image is not showing up under Python unless it is set to a
    # global variable - no problem under Tcl. I assume it is being garbage
    # collected some how, even though the tcl command 'image names' shows
    # that as far as Tcl is concerned, the image exists and is called pyimage1.

Can anyone explain to me what's going on? IMHO, either this is a Tkinter bug, 
or a documentation bug because the documentation does not explain to me why
this image1 has to be global, or am I missing something here.