Tkinter button placement help

[Thekid]

I'm working on a Tkinter project that has several toplevel windows and I'm having a problem placing the buttons on the windows where I want them to be. For now I'm working on getting the templates the way I want them and once that's done I plan on going back and adding code for MySQL to store the info. Anyway, here's an example of a simple root window with 2 buttons:

from Tkinter import *

root = Tk()
root.geometry('500x500')
message = 'Button test'
Label(root, text=message).pack()
Button(root, text='Save',command=None).pack(side=LEFT)
Button(root, text='Exit',command=root.destroy).pack(side=BOTTOM)

root.mainloop()

Running this will have the 'Save' button mid-left of the window and 'Exit' centered-bottom. If I move them around to 'RIGHT','TOP',e tc..they still won't be where I want them which is side by side, centered-bottom. How can I correct this? Thanks

[Thekid]

I've found the '.place()' command which seems to somewhat be what I'm looking for so I guess I'll just play around with the positioning.

from Tkinter import *
 
root = Tk()
root.geometry('500x500')
message = 'Button test'
Label(root, text=message).pack()
B1=Button(root, text='Save',command=None)
B1.pack()
B1.place(relx=0.4, rely=0.95, anchor=CENTER)
B2=Button(root, text='Exit',command=root.destroy)
B2.pack()
B2.place(relx=0.5, rely=0.95, anchor=CENTER)
 
root.mainloop()

[dwblas]

Put both buttons in a frame and then place the frame.

from Tkinter import *
 
root = Tk()
root.geometry('500x500')

message = 'Button test'
Label(root, text=message).pack()

but_frame = Frame(root)
Button(but_frame, text='Save',command=None).pack(side=LEFT)
Button(but_frame, text='Exit',command=root.quit, bg='red', fg='white').pack(side=LEFT)

but_frame.pack(side=BOTTOM)
 
root.mainloop()

[Thekid]

Ah...very interesting! I suppose I could do that and if need be, also use the 'place' function if I want to move the frame slightly! Thanks

[dwblas]

Depending on what you are doing, you may want to use .grid() instead of .pack()

http://effbot.org/tkinterbook/grid.htm

http://infohost.nmt.edu/tcc/help/pubs/tkinter/layout-mgt.html#grid

[Thekid]

The .grid() method is better in this situation than the .place(), especially since I have many entry fields so I'll change the .pack() to it. Thanks