Python GUI Programming Cookbook, Second Edition - Second Edition

How it works...

Note how we aligned the label, but not the textbox below it. We have to use the sticky property for all the controls we want to left-align. We can do that in a loop, using the winfo_children() and grid_configure(sticky='W') properties, as we did before in the recipe, Using padding to add space around widgets, in this chapter.

The winfo_children() function returns a list of all the children belonging to the parent. This enables us to loop through all the widgets and change their properties.

• Using tkinter to force the naming to the left, right, top, or bottom is very similar to Java: West, East, North, and South, abbreviated to 'W' and so on. We can also use the following syntax: tk.W instead of 'W'. This requires having imported ...