[Tutor] login window using Tk

[Alan Gauld]

On 02/11/11 05:05, Chris Hare wrote:

>          def verifyLogin(self):
>                  farmid = list.get(ACTIVE)
>                  userid = login_userid.get()
>                  login_passwd = login_passwd.get()
>
> gets called, but I get the error
>
> Exception in Tkinter callback
>      farmid = list.get(ACTIVE)
> AttributeError: type object 'list' has no attribute 'get'
>
> When the frame controls were added, list is defined as
>
> list = Listbox(frame)

names defined in functions are local to that function. They can't be 
seen outside of the function. So...
To be able to access the controls you need to add themas instance 
attributes to your class. so you should use

self.list = Listbox(....

and

farmid = self.list.get(....

What you are seeing is Python looking for something called list in your 
methods namespace and not finding it. It can't see anything global 
either so it picks up the built-in list() type.

HTH

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Alan G
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