Hi, Thus spoketh GKalman <kalma...@msn.com> unto us on Sun, 17 Jul 2011 20:34:22 -0700 (PDT):
> > The following code fragment works OK. Question: why? > #====================================== > from Tkinter import * > root=Tk() > > lbl=Label(root,text='1').pack() > > def doIt(): > lbl.config(bg="yellow") > > btn=Button(root,text="do", bg="cyan",command=doIt).pack() > > root.mainloop() > #======================================= > My question is: how is the instance lbl.config(...) recognized in the > doIt callback fn when called from the main w/o an argument referencing > lbl? When I run this example and hit the button I get: Exception in Tkinter callback Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1413, in __call__ return self.func(*args) File "test6.py", line 8, in doIt lbl.config(bg="yellow") AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'config' as one would expect. Regards Michael .-.. .. ...- . .-.. --- -. --. .- -. -.. .--. .-. --- ... .--. . .-. "What happened to the crewman?" "The M-5 computer needed a new power source, the crewman merely got in the way." -- Kirk and Dr. Richard Daystrom, "The Ultimate Computer", stardate 4731.3. _______________________________________________ Tkinter-discuss mailing list Tkinter-discuss@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tkinter-discuss