how come .insert() don't work

[Bennie]

Eric Brunel wrote:

> Bennie wrote:
> 
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> This is a chunck out of my program:
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> from Tkinter import *
>>
>> class App:
>>     def __init__(self, master):
>>         frame = Frame(master)
>>         frame.pack()
>>                self.menubar = Menu(root)
>>         self.html = Menu(self.menubar, tearoff=0)
>>         self.html.add_command(label="p", command=self.tekst_in('p'))
> 
> 
> You're using your tekst_in method before setting the attribute 
> self.tekst, so when the method code is executed, there is actully no 
> attribute named tekst; hence the Attribute error.
> 
> Move the previous line after the self.tekst.pack(...) line and 
> everything should be fine.
> 
>>     #    self.html.add_command(label="p", command=self.tekst_a)
>>         self.menubar.add_cascade(label="html", menu=self.html)
>>                root.config(menu=self.menubar)
>>                self.tekst = Text()
>>         self.tekst.pack(fill=BOTH, expand=YES)
>>         def tekst_in(self, tag):
>>         tekst_tag={'p': '\t\t<p>\n\n\t\t</p>\n', 'br': '<br />'}
>>         self.tekst.insert(INSERT, tekst_tag[tag])
>>
>>     # This works
>>     #def tekst_a(self):
>>     #    self.tekst.insert(INSERT, "<p> </p>")
>>       
>> if __name__ == '__main__':
>>     root = Tk()
>>     app = App(root)
>>     root.mainloop()
>>
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>> The error is:
>> -------------------------------
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "test.py", line 30, in ?
>>     app = App(root)
>>   File "test.py", line 10, in __init__
>>     self.html.add_command(label="p", command=self.tekst_in('p'))
>>   File "test.py", line 21, in tekst_in
>>     self.tekst.insert(INSERT, tekst_tag[tag])
>> AttributeError: App instance has no attribute 'tekst'
>> ------------------------------------------------------
>> hope this is enough info.
> 
> 
> HTH
But now he execute te self.tekst_in without user input.