On Wed, 6 Jan 2021, Terry Reedy wrote:
'underline' has nothing to do with looking up the command in
self.callbacks. It is a keyword parameter for the add_command method, and
is handled like all other values passed by name, and as you did for the
other arguments
file_menu.add_command(
On 1/6/2021 4:17 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
On 1/6/2021 4:03 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Thu, 7 Jan 2021, Chris Angelico wrote:
Are you sure that this works? It's syntactically valid, but I don't
think it means what you think it does.
ChrisA,
I'm always open to learning. There's no error generat
On Thu, 7 Jan 2021, Peter Otten wrote:
Spoiler: unless the name 'underline' is defined you get a NameError:
NameError: name 'underline' is not defined
If it is defined and self.callbacks is a dict you get a TypeError:
TypeError: unhashable type: 'slice'
because that's what a colon means in a con
On 06/01/2021 22:03, Grant Edwards wrote:
I'm completely baffled by that. Can somebody explain how this
expression is evaluated?
self.callbacks['file->new', underline: 0]
It appears that the dict callbacks is being accessed with the key of
a tuple comprising a string and a slice.
Huh?
Y
On 06/01/2021 22:03, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Thu, 7 Jan 2021, Chris Angelico wrote:
Are you sure that this works? It's syntactically valid, but I don't
think it means what you think it does.
ChrisA,
I'm always open to learning. There's no error generated ... yet the
application doesn' open so
On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 9:22 AM Grant Edwards wrote:
>
> On 2021-01-06, Rich Shepard wrote:
> > On Wed, 6 Jan 2021, 2qdxy4rzwzuui...@potatochowder.com wrote:
> >
> >> For the sake of future generations who may run into this issue, can you
> >> post the complete, correct call to file_menu.add_comma
On 1/6/2021 4:03 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Thu, 7 Jan 2021, Chris Angelico wrote:
Are you sure that this works? It's syntactically valid, but I don't
think it means what you think it does.
ChrisA,
I'm always open to learning. There's no error generated ... yet the
application doesn' open so
On 2021-01-06, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Jan 2021, 2qdxy4rzwzuui...@potatochowder.com wrote:
>
>> For the sake of future generations who may run into this issue, can you
>> post the complete, correct call to file_menu.add_command?
>
> This is the working version of the stanza I initially pos
On Thu, 7 Jan 2021, Chris Angelico wrote:
Cool. Terry had something on the subject in the other thread; I think
that's a good place to start. (I don't know much about Tkinter, this line
of code just looked odd in general Python syntax.)
ChrisA,
It's been a long time since I wrote any Python c
On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 8:04 AM Rich Shepard wrote:
>
> On Thu, 7 Jan 2021, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
> > Are you sure that this works? It's syntactically valid, but I don't
> > think it means what you think it does.
>
> ChrisA,
>
> I'm always open to learning. There's no error generated ... yet the
On Thu, 7 Jan 2021, Chris Angelico wrote:
Are you sure that this works? It's syntactically valid, but I don't
think it means what you think it does.
ChrisA,
I'm always open to learning. There's no error generated ... yet the
application doesn' open so it's time to run it through pdb.
Regards
On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 7:43 AM Rich Shepard wrote:
> This is the working version of the stanza I initially posted:
>
> file_menu.add_command(
> label = 'New',
> command = self.callbacks['file->new', underline: 0],
> accelerator = 'Ctrl+N'
> )
On Wed, 6 Jan 2021, 2qdxy4rzwzuui...@potatochowder.com wrote:
For the sake of future generations who may run into this issue, can you
post the complete, correct call to file_menu.add_command?
This is the working version of the stanza I initially posted:
file_menu.add_command(
On 1/6/2021 1:32 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
My application's menu has lines like this:
file_menu.add_command(
label = 'New',
command = self.callbacks['file->new', underline 0],
accelerator = 'Ctrl+N'
)
'underline' has nothing to do with look
On 2021-01-06 at 11:18:15 -0800,
Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Jan 2021, 2qdxy4rzwzuui...@potatochowder.com wrote:
>
> > I'm not a TKinter expert (nor even a current user), but that line that
> > begins with whitespace and "command =" looks suspicious. As far as I can
> > see, Python is correc
On Wed, 6 Jan 2021, 2qdxy4rzwzuui...@potatochowder.com wrote:
I'm not a TKinter expert (nor even a current user), but that line that
begins with whitespace and "command =" looks suspicious. As far as I can
see, Python is correct to call it syntactically erroneous.
Yes, the line above it needed
On 2021-01-06 at 10:32:58 -0800,
Rich Shepard wrote:
> My application's menu has lines like this:
> file_menu.add_command(
> label = 'New',
> command = self.callbacks['file->new', underline 0],
> accelerator = 'Ctrl+N'
> )
>
> Python reports a
My application's menu has lines like this:
file_menu.add_command(
label = 'New',
command = self.callbacks['file->new', underline 0],
accelerator = 'Ctrl+N'
)
Python reports a syntax error when specifying the string index to underline;
it rejects
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