[Tutor] Recursive Tkinter buttons

[Kent Johnson]

Adam Cripps wrote:
> I'm trying to create recursive Tkinter buttons with:
> 
> 		for i in range(0,10):
> 			print i
> 			buttonlabel = "field " +str(i)
> 			button[i] = Button (text=buttonlabel)
> 			button[i].grid(column=3, row = i+3)
> 
> However, Tkinter doesn't seem to like it with

Please show us the whole program. This works for me:

from Tkinter import *

root = Tk()
button = {}
for i in range(0,10):
     print i
     buttonlabel = "field " +str(i)
     button[i] = Button (text=buttonlabel)
     button[i].grid(column=3, row = i+3)

root.mainloop()

Kent

> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "report.py", line 83, in ?
>     app = Application(root)
>   File "report.py", line 28, in __init__
>     self.createWidgets()
>   File "report.py", line 79, in createWidgets
>     button[i] = Button (text=buttonlabel)
>   File "C:\PYTHON24\lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py", line 1146, in __setitem__
>     self.configure({key: value})
>   File "C:\PYTHON24\lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py", line 1139, in configure
>     return self._configure('configure', cnf, kw)
>   File "C:\PYTHON24\lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py", line 1130, in _configure
>     self.tk.call(_flatten((self._w, cmd)) + self._options(cnf))
>   File "C:\PYTHON24\lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py", line 997, in _options
>     if k[-1] == '_': k = k[:-1]
> TypeError: unsubscriptable object
> 
> What is a good method for producing recursive Tk widgets?
> 
> TIA. 
> Adam