Question about Tkinter MenuOption variable

[Rob Wolfe]

Chad wrote:
> Is there anyway to set the individual options in Tkinter to a
> particular variable.  For example, I have a menu option(code is below)
> which has January, February, March and so on, which I would like to
> have corresponding values of 01, 02, 03 and so on.  Can someone please
> tell me how to do that within the context of the code I have below -
> or even totally modify it if you must.
>
>  Label(self,
>               text = "Month"
>               ).grid(row = 5, column = 1, sticky = W)
>        OPTIONS = [
>        "Jan",
>        "Feb",
>        "Mar",
>        "Apr",
>        "May",
>        "June",
>        "July",
>        "Aug",
>        "Sep",
>        "Oct",
>        "Nov",
>        "Dec"]
>        default_option = StringVar(self)
>        default_option.set(OPTIONS[0])
>        self.month_option = OptionMenu(self, default_option, *OPTIONS)
>        self.month_option.grid(row = 5, column = 2, sticky = W)

What about using dictionary? For example:

<code>
import Tkinter as Tk

def state():
    print OPTIONS[default_option.get()]

root = Tk.Tk()
Tk.Label(root, text="Month").grid(row=1, column=1, sticky=Tk.W)
OPTIONS = dict(Jan=1, Feb=2, Mar=3, Apr=4, May=5, June=6, July=7,
               Aug=8, Sep=9, Oct=10, Nov=11, Dec=12)
# or
#OPTIONS = dict(Jan="01", Feb="02", Mar="03", Apr="04", May="05",
June="06", July="07",
#               Aug="08", Sep="09", Oct="10", Nov="11", Dec="12")

default_option = Tk.StringVar()
default_option.set("Jan")
month_option = Tk.OptionMenu(root, default_option, *OPTIONS.keys())
month_option.grid(row=1, column=2, sticky=Tk.W)
Tk.Button(root, command=state, text='state').grid(row=2, column=1)

root.mainloop()
</code>

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HTH,
Rob