Which method can I override for cleanup task when a Tkinter.Tk window in Python?

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Published on 2010-06-02T01:13:01Z Indexed on 2010/06/02 1:23 UTC
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Hello. I created:

class MainGUI(Tkinter.Tk): # some overrides



# MAIN 

gui = MainGUI(None) 

gui.mainloop()

But I need to do some cleanup when the window is closed by the user. Which method in Tkinter.Tk can I override?

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