Mysterious tkinter bug: tk.Button doesn't think it passed event <1>

[Ben Elam]

On Thursday, July 2, 2015 at 6:42:22 PM UTC-5, MRAB wrote:
> On 2015-07-02 23:33, Ben Elam wrote:
> > I've stripped things down to the least amount of code necessary to reproduce the error. I can make tk.Button handle event '<3>' but not event '<1>'. That is, the function the event is passed to receives the event and can even print the address of the event object, but a callback later produces an error suggesting that no event was actually passed to the function. Also, tk.Label handles '<1>' without problem. What gives?
> >
> > Code, errors, and slightly more details here:
> >
> > http://ingcake.github.io/2015/07/02/tkinter-feature-request---clickable-button/
> >
> > I hope I'm just doing something dumb; any help would be much appreciated.
> >
> For a start, you're binding buttonHandler1 to button1 twice:
> 
> 1. Passed via the 'command' keyword on line 13.
> 
> 2 Via 'bind' on line 14.
> 
> In 1, no argument will be passed. The handler you've defined expects an
> argument, so there'll be an exception, although the program will
> continue afterwards.
> 
> In 2, an event argument will be passed.

That was indeed the issue! "I'm dumb" it is! Thanks.