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In tkinter, how do you change a widget's parent?

Aug 10th, 2000 23:52
unknown unknown, keith murphy, Richard Chamberlain

Tricky one this.

FYI you can get widget options via either config() or keys(). So for
instance if you did:

entry=Entry(root,width=20)

then

print entry.config().keys()

or entry.keys()

would show you all the available options for that widget. You should use
a combination of both because they both show some things and not others.
There isn't a parent option, nor a method (not one that I know of at
least). 

The only way I know of doing it would be to use pack_forget() (or for
the grid-master grid_forget() or grid_remove()) and then assign the
variable to another widget in another frame.

If it's a complicated widget then wrap the whole thing a function with
parent as an argument so all you need to do is call the function to
recreate it.