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Python Push My Buttons

Sahar Nasiri
Sahar Nasiri
7,454 Points
Posted by Sahar Nasiri
Sahar Nasiri
7,454 Points

columnconfigure and rowconfigure

I don't understand why we use this and I also did not understand why Kenneth didn't set the rowconfigure for buttons! He said because we have one row which is not going to resize, when did we build that rowconfigure? And if it is a default thing why did he set rowconfigure(0, weight=0) for the first grid?

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Kenneth Love
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Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Kenneth Love
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Oh, jeez, way to ask a question about a year-plus-old workshop on a topic I don't actively pursue :)

Looking back over my script and the code, since we're putting the buttons into their own frame, which has a grid made up of a single row and two columns, we had to tell tkinter which column each button belonged in. Since there's only one row, that's set automatically.

As for the first row in the outer frame, that grid has multiple rows (and a single column) so we specify that so we can give each row in the column a specific weight, which controls how it resizes.

It's two special cases so we have to address each of them.