[Tutor] Tkinter Calendar to receive user entry.

[Peter Otten]

Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote:

> On 07/02/17 00:24, Pooja Bhalode wrote:
> 
>> I am trying to create a calendar using tkinter GUI such that when the
>> user opens the GUI,
> 
> So far as I'm aware there is no such Calendar widget in the standard
> modules, you would need to find a third party module.
> 
>> Can some one please help me with this? I looked up on the website, I came
>> across this one,
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27774089/
>> python-calendar-widget-return-the-user-selected-date
>> But when I try to run it, it gives me an error saying that it is not able
>> to recognize Calendar.
> 
> I'm really puzzled by that post because there is non Calendar widget
> in ttk (or Tix) as of Python 3.4. They are discussing code that
> should not work but they seem to have it working. I assume there
> is a non standard ttk module out there somewhere?

The question on stackoverflow points to

http://svn.python.org/projects/sandbox/trunk/ttk-gsoc/samples/ttkcalendar.py

A few imports are sufficient to turn test2() from the answer into a working 
script (python 2):

$ cat demo.py
#!/usr/bin/env python
import calendar
import ttk
import Tkinter
from ttkcalendar import Calendar

def test2():
    import sys
    root = Tkinter.Tk()
    root.title('Ttk Calendar')
    ttkcal = Calendar(firstweekday=calendar.SUNDAY)
    ttkcal.pack(expand=1, fill='both')

    if 'win' not in sys.platform:
        style = ttk.Style()
        style.theme_use('clam')

    root.mainloop()

    x = ttkcal.selection    
    print 'x is: ', x

test2()
$ ./demo.py 
x is:  2017-05-11 00:00:00