[Tutor] Tables in Tkinter

[Pooja Bhalode]

I am currently using python 2.7 in mac system.
I think tkinter would be a problem since I use Tkinter for Python 2.7. But
I do not know the corresponding part of tkintertable for python 2.7

Thank you

Pooja

On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 9:25 AM, Pooja Bhalode <poojabhalode11 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Alan,
>
> Sorry for being ambiguous earlier. I can make it more clear in this email.
> I am planning on creating a scrollable table (grid of values) with title
> labels for each column and rows present in it and a title for the overall
> table.
>
> I saw it online that to create a table in tkinter, I can use a built in
> module tkintertable but would have to download it.
> when I tried to install tkintertable using pip: i got the following errors:
>
> Poojas-MacBook-Pro:~ poojabhalode$ pip install tkintertable
>
> Collecting tkintertable
>
> Collecting Pmw (from tkintertable)
>
> Installing collected packages: Pmw, tkintertable
>
> Exception:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>
>   File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-9.0.1-py2.7.egg/pip/basecommand.py",
> line 215, in main
>
>     status = self.run(options, args)
>
>   File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-9.0.1-py2.7.egg/pip/commands/install.py",
> line 342, in run
>
>     prefix=options.prefix_path,
>
>   File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-9.0.1-py2.7.egg/pip/req/req_set.py",
> line 784, in install
>
>     **kwargs
>
>   File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-9.0.1-py2.7.egg/pip/req/req_install.py",
> line 851, in install
>
>     self.move_wheel_files(self.source_dir, root=root, prefix=prefix)
>
>   File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-9.0.1-py2.7.egg/pip/req/req_install.py",
> line 1064, in move_wheel_files
>
>     isolated=self.isolated,
>
>   File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-9.0.1-py2.7.egg/pip/wheel.py",
> line 345, in move_wheel_files
>
>     clobber(source, lib_dir, True)
>
>   File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-9.0.1-py2.7.egg/pip/wheel.py",
> line 316, in clobber
>
>     ensure_dir(destdir)
>
>   File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-9.0.1-py2.7.egg/pip/utils/__init__.py",
> line 83, in ensure_dir
>
>     os.makedirs(path)
>
>   File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/os.py",
> line 157, in makedirs
>
>     mkdir(name, mode)
>
> OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/Library/Python/2.7/site-
> packages/Pmw'
>
>
> After this, if I tried to import
>
> From tkintertable import TableCanvas
>
> It gave me an error saying no module tkintertable found.
>
> Can you please suggest me as to what I can do and how I can create the
> table required? I also want to create another table wherein there would be
> scrollable rows and columns. There would be one main column, which would be
> subdivided into three and then the three columns subdivided into more
> columns.
>
>
> Please let me know.
>
> Thank you
>
>
> Pooja
>
> On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 8:27 PM, Alan Gauld via Tutor <tutor at python.org>
> wrote:
>
>> On 01/03/17 23:40, Pooja Bhalode wrote:
>>
>> > I am trying to create normal tables in Tkinter.
>>
>> First you need to define what a "normal table" is.
>> There is no such thing in standard Tkinter, so any
>> kind of table is not normal.
>>
>> Do you want a simple grid of values?
>> Do you want a spreadsheet type grid with editable cells?
>> Do you want a live link to an underlying data store?
>> Do you want it scrollable? Or re-sizeable? within the form?
>>
>> All of these features are "normal" for tables in
>> different GUI toolkits, but none of them are normal
>> in Tkinter.
>>
>> > as to what functions I can use, I looked into tkintertable, but that
>> does
>> > not seem to work for me.
>>
>> What does "not work" mean?
>>
>> Did it display on screen?
>> Did it have empty values?
>> Were the values not editable (assuming you wanted them to be?
>>
>> You need to be much more specific when describing problems.
>>
>> > I tried installing it but it gave me a bunch of
>> > errors while installation and does not work.
>>
>> How did you install it?
>> What were the errors?
>> What does "not work" mean? (How could it work if the
>> installation gave "a bunch of errors"?)
>>
>> > Is there any other simpler way for creating table and configuring them
>> as
>> > per needed?
>>
>> It depends what you want. Tell us what you are trying
>> to achieve and we may be able to suggest something.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Alan G
>> Author of the Learn to Program web site
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