Oleg Broytmann doesn't understand my problem

[Laura Creighton]

I don't just have a dictionary, I have arguments and a dictionary. Maybe
you had better look at http://pmw.sourceforge.net/ or perhaps more
to the point http://www.pythonware.com/library/tkinter/introduction/x386-backwards-compatibility.htm

-----  I need to be able to pass both a=b parameters AND a dictionary.
Laura