Harlin Seritt wrote: > Would I do this like: > > buttondict = {button1, "name.txt"}
If you want to.... but I guess the other way round makes more sense. And the syntax is wrong, its supposed to be {key : value, ...} The point is that you can create buttons as much as you want - in a for loop for example - but usually its important to keep _some_ reference to it so you can alter it later - e.g. disable it. But you don't _have_ to, if you don't want to touch it after creation. Something like this might give you the idea: cbs = {} for name in filenames: # I don't know the real expression for creating a button - but you should, and this illustrates the idea cb = check_button(parent, command=lambda name=name: do_something(name)) cbs[name] = cb Later, in do_something(name), you could e.g. say: def do_something(name): cbs[name].config(enabled=False) Of course this means that cbs has to be a global var. But there exist other options of course - as part of a object or whatever. that depends on your code. -- Regards, Diez B. Roggisch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list