>>> m.index('none')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/Users/user/git/cpython/Lib/tkinter/__init__.py", line 3434, in index
return self.tk.getint(i)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
_tkinter.TclError: expected integer but got ""
It should be easy to accommodate both the new and old behavior.