Tkinter: Selecting one item in each of two listboxes

[Fredrik Lundh]

Jeffrey Barish wrote:

> I have an application that produces two listboxes.  I would like to be
> able to select one of the items in the first listbox and one of the
> items in the second listbox.  However, when I make my selection in the
> second listbox, the selected item in the first listbox gets deselected.
> Is there a way to do this?  I tried setting selectmode to MULTIPLE, but
> that option only allows me to select multiple items in one of the
> listboxes (both of which get deselected when I make a selection in the
> second listbox).

see the discussion of "exportselection" on the listbox patterns page:

http://www.pythonware.com/library/tkinter/introduction/listbox.htm
=> patterns

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