Tkinter equiv for setPalette

[Russell E. Owen]

In article <47aeda20$0$2988$ba620e4c at news.skynet.be>,
 Helmut Jarausch <jarausch at skynet.be> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am to convert an old Perl-Tk script to Python.
> It starts by
> my $MW= new MainWindow;
> $MW->setPalette(background => 'AntiqueWhite1', foreground => 'blue');
> 
> Is there an equivalent for Tkinter? How can I set default colors for
> background and foreground for the whole application (root window and its
> children)

Tkinter widgets have a tk_setPalette method so you can do this:

root = Tkinter.Tk()
root.tk_setPalette(background = 'AntiqueWhite1', foreground = 'blue')

-- Russell