[Tutor] Tkinter widget config options help

[Scott Walkup]

Hello everyone!

I've been checking out the chapter in Programming Python 2nd Edition
about GUI programming with Tkinter. While still on the early examples
I've come across a rather embarissing/annoying bug somewhere in my
python setup.

One the first few examples of GUI programming specificaly dealing with
passing config options to the Tkinter module:

from Tkinter import *
Label(text='Hello GUI World!').pack(expand=YES, fill=BOTH)
mainloop()

spit out errors about NameError YES not being defined.

(well actualy now that works,*boggle* but another way I tried to setup
this script was:

#!/usr/bin/python
import Tkinter
widget = Tkinter.Label(None, text='Hello GUI world!')
widget.pack(fill="both",expand=1)
widget.mainloop()


(I set it up as an executable for linux, so ingore the
#!/usr/bin/python)
The program this way works, but note that both config options, fill and
expand have different settings that want the book said I could use
(meaning YES instead of 1 and BOTH instead of passing it as a string,
not a variable).  But if I try using the books example of passing
variables, python calls me stupid and says YES (and if I switch it
around) and BOTH are not defined.

I went and hunted down my Tkinter.py and searched in the code there
(Thanks to python its easy to read and not be completely confused
sometimes) and found I could pass   1   for expand and by
experimentation I figured out I could use "both" to get what I wanted
done.

So anyway I also found out where all these variables where hiding from
me, in Tkconstants.py, and I was able to verify that the variables I
needed where in there, and also that Tkinter.py was calling that file,
but somehow in all this weirdness, my script never seems to know that
they do exist *grumble*.

I've searched the newgroups, mailing list archives and checked out all
the relevant FAQ's I could find for this problem, do I just have a
problem in the code I was creating? (I could have sworn the books
example didnt work last night)

Another thing, I also checked out the Tkinter FAQ for unix and it talked
of trying out

import Tkinter
Tkinter._test()

and that does work. Ugh.

Any help is appreciated, I'm sure I'm missing something obvious in my
code, or maybe python just doesnt want to work with me today.

TIA!