Is it possible to call a function from a Tkinter widget.bind and include args???

[Martin v. Loewis]

"G. Willoughby" <sab at NOSPAM.freeuk.com> writes:

> Is it possible to call a function from a Tkinter widget.bind and include
> args???
> i.e. i want to do something like this:
> 
> def printButtonAndCoords(event, button):
>     print "you rolled over %s and coords are %d:%d" % button, event.x,
> eventy
> 
> Button1.bind("<Enter>", printButtonAndCoords("button1"))
> Button2.bind("<Enter>", printButtonAndCoords("button2"))
> 
> is this possible???

The common idiom is

Button1.bind("<Enter>", lambda ev:printButtonAndCoords(ev,"button1"))
Button2.bind("<Enter>", lambda ev:printButtonAndCoords(ev,"button2"))

Notice that event.widget will give you the widget that was the source
of the event, so you may not need additional parameters at all.

Regards,
Martin