gh-126008: Fix the type of return value for ttk.Widget.cget

Lib/tkinter/ttk.py

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
            "tclobjs_to_py", "setup_master"]
 
 import tkinter
+import _tkinter
 from tkinter import _flatten, _join, _stringify, _splitdict
 
 
@@ -570,6 +571,15 @@ def state(self, statespec=None):
         return self.tk.splitlist(str(self.tk.call(self._w, "state", statespec)))
 
 
+    def cget(self, key):
+        """Return the resource value for a KEY given as string."""
+        if isinstance(return_value := super().cget(key), _tkinter.Tcl_Obj):
+            return str(return_value)
+        return return_value
+
+    __getitem__ = cget
+
+
 class Button(Widget):
     """Ttk Button widget, displays a textual label and/or image, and
     evaluates a command when pressed."""

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2024-10-29-03-32-28.gh-issue-126008.wcuSmo.rst

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fix an incorrect return value type when getting resource value of ttk widgets.