One question that often arises is how to make a specific toplevel stay on top in the sense of its visual stacking. With recent Tkinter (certainly 2.4--also 2.3? Earlier?), it's enough to write something like
- from Tkinter import * root = Tk() root.wm_attributes('-topmost', 1)
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