Issue #6160: The bbox() method of tkinter.Spinbox now returns a tuple of

integers instead of a string.  Based on patch by Guilherme Polo.

Lib/tkinter/__init__.py

@@ -3511,7 +3511,7 @@ class Spinbox(Widget, XView):
         bounding box may refer to a region outside the
         visible area of the window.
         """
-        return self.tk.call(self._w, 'bbox', index)
+        return self._getints(self.tk.call(self._w, 'bbox', index)) or None
 
     def delete(self, first, last=None):
         """Delete one or more elements of the spinbox.

Lib/tkinter/test/test_tkinter/test_widgets.py

@@ -457,6 +457,18 @@ class SpinboxTest(EntryTest, unittest.TestCase):
         widget = self.create()
         self.checkBooleanParam(widget, 'wrap')
 
+    def test_bbox(self):
+        widget = self.create()
+        bbox = widget.bbox(0)
+        self.assertEqual(len(bbox), 4)
+        for item in bbox:
+            self.assertIsInstance(item, int)
+
+        self.assertRaises(tkinter.TclError, widget.bbox, 'noindex')
+        self.assertRaises(tkinter.TclError, widget.bbox, None)
+        self.assertRaises(TypeError, widget.bbox)
+        self.assertRaises(TypeError, widget.bbox, 0, 1)
+
 
 @add_standard_options(StandardOptionsTests)
 class TextTest(AbstractWidgetTest, unittest.TestCase):

Misc/NEWS

@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #6160: The bbox() method of tkinter.Spinbox now returns a tuple of
+  integers instead of a string.  Based on patch by Guilherme Polo.
+
 - Issue #19286: Directories in ``package_data`` are no longer added to
   the filelist, preventing failure outlined in the ticket.