'Call Tcl configure command and return the result as a dict.'

def _getconfigure(self, *args):

    cnf = {}
    for x in self.tk.splitlist(self.tk.call(*args)):
        x = self.tk.splitlist(x)
        cnf[x[0][1:]] = ((x[0][1:],) + x[1:])
    return cnf
