Question about Tkinter MenuOption variable

[Chad]

Is there anyway to set the individual options in Tkinter to a
particular variable. For example, I have a menu option(code is below)
which has January, February, March and so on, which I would like to
have corresponding values of 01, 02, 03 and so on. Can someone please
tell me how to do that within the context of the code I have below -
or even totally modify it if you must.

Label(self,
text = "Month"
).grid(row = 5, column = 1, sticky = W)
OPTIONS = [
"Jan",
"Feb",
"Mar",
"Apr",
"May",
"June",
"July",
"Aug",
"Sep",
"Oct",
"Nov",
"Dec"]
default_option = StringVar(self)
default_option. set(OPTIONS[0])
self.month_opti on = OptionMenu(self , default_option, *OPTIONS)
self.month_opti on.grid(row = 5, column = 2, sticky = W)

[Rob Wolfe]

Re: Question about Tkinter MenuOption variable


Chad wrote:

Is there anyway to set the individual options in Tkinter to a
particular variable. For example, I have a menu option(code is below)
which has January, February, March and so on, which I would like to
have corresponding values of 01, 02, 03 and so on. Can someone please
tell me how to do that within the context of the code I have below -
or even totally modify it if you must.
>
Label(self,
text = "Month"
).grid(row = 5, column = 1, sticky = W)
OPTIONS = [
"Jan",
"Feb",
"Mar",
"Apr",
"May",
"June",
"July",
"Aug",
"Sep",
"Oct",
"Nov",
"Dec"]
default_option = StringVar(self)
default_option. set(OPTIONS[0])
self.month_opti on = OptionMenu(self , default_option, *OPTIONS)
self.month_opti on.grid(row = 5, column = 2, sticky = W)

What about using dictionary? For example:

<code>
import Tkinter as Tk

def state():
print OPTIONS[default_option. get()]

root = Tk.Tk()
Tk.Label(root, text="Month").g rid(row=1, column=1, sticky=Tk.W)
OPTIONS = dict(Jan=1, Feb=2, Mar=3, Apr=4, May=5, June=6, July=7,
Aug=8, Sep=9, Oct=10, Nov=11, Dec=12)
# or
#OPTIONS = dict(Jan="01", Feb="02", Mar="03", Apr="04", May="05",
June="06", July="07",
# Aug="08", Sep="09", Oct="10", Nov="11", Dec="12")

default_option = Tk.StringVar()
default_option. set("Jan")
month_option = Tk.OptionMenu(r oot, default_option, *OPTIONS.keys() )
month_option.gr id(row=1, column=2, sticky=Tk.W)
Tk.Button(root, command=state, text='state').g rid(row=2, column=1)

root.mainloop()
</code>

--
HTH,
Rob

[Scott David Daniels]

Re: Question about Tkinter MenuOption variable

Rob Wolfe wrote:

Chad wrote:

>... I have a menu option(code is below).... I would like to have
>correspondin g values of 01, 02, 03 and so on....

>
What about using dictionary? For example: ....

OPTIONS = dict(Jan=1, Feb=2, Mar=3, Apr=4, May=5, June=6, July=7,
Aug=8, Sep=9, Oct=10, Nov=11, Dec=12)
# or
#OPTIONS = dict(Jan="01", Feb="02", Mar="03", Apr="04", May="05",
June="06", July="07",
# Aug="08", Sep="09", Oct="10", Nov="11", Dec="12")

or

OPTIONS = dict((m, n + 1) for n, m in enumerate(
'Jan Feb Mar Apr May June July Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec'.split()))

--
--Scott David Daniels
scott.daniels@a cm.org