Tkinter.Menu() Question

[Adonis]

"Peter Otten" <__peter__ at web.de> wrote in message
news:bt9v6d$s3n$07$1 at news.t-online.com...
> Adonis wrote:
>
> > I wish to create a popup menu from a list, when it is created they all
> > show the same label from the list:
> >
> > Months = [0, 'January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June',
> >             'July', 'August', 'September', 'October', 'November',
> > 'December']
> >
> > def _Menu_Click(self, month):
> >     print month
> >
> > menu = Menu(fraMain, tearoff=0)
> >
> > for Month in Months[1:]:
> >     menu.add_command(label=Month, command=lambda : _Menu_Click(Month))
> >
> > When the menu calls _Menu_Click(...) it always prints 'December'
> >
> > Now my understanding is the when an object is created and it is
> > replicated, whichever of the modified replications affects all of the
> > objects, being that they are just mere references to the original (my
> > wording might be off, correct me if I am wrong). How do I avoid this for
> > what I am trying to achieve?
>
> (I made some bogus changes so I could ensure it works)
>
> from Tkinter import *
>
> Months = [0, 'January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June',
>             'July', 'August', 'September', 'October', 'November',
> 'December']
>
> root = Tk()
>
> class DontCare:
>     def _Menu_Click(self, month):
>         print month
> dc = DontCare()
>
> mb = Menubutton(root, text="so what")
> mb.pack()
> menu = mb["menu"] = Menu(mb, tearoff=0)
>
>
> for Month in Months[1:]:
>     menu.add_command(label=Month, command=lambda m=Month:
dc._Menu_Click(m))
>
> root.mainloop()
>
> Note how the instance (dc) is provided with the method (_Menu_Click) in
the
> lambda (in your real code you will most likely have to replace dc with
> self). The real trick is to provide the loop variable Month as the default
> value for m in the lambda. m will be bound to the same string as Month
when
> the lambda is *created*. If you don't do this, the value of the variable
> Month will be looked up when the lambda is *called*, which will be always
> "December" after the for loop is terminated.
>
> Peter

Thanks a million, works like a charm.

Adonis