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I'm quite willing to do more work on this. I agree with the criticisms (though I'm curious how name conflicts are presently handled for widgets when the name argument is used).

 I think the best solution for getting a font from a font name is "nameToFont". This matches the existing "nameToWdg". (I'd also like to add a "nameToVar" or "nameToVariable", so one standard mechanism handles everything, but I digress).

Unfortunately, tkFont is an add-on package. I'm not sure how tk.nameToFont can be written, given that normally a tk object won't automatically have any idea about fonts.

Do you have any suggestion for handling this? Could we just start importing tkFont as a standard part of Tkinter?