On 2019-06-07 2:43 p.m., Rich Shepard wrote: > I understand positional and keyword arguments and the syntax for the > ttk.Checkbutton as described on > <https://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl/TkCmd/ttk_checkbutton.htm>. > > $ python3 geochem.py > File "geochem.py", line 60 > ttk.Checkbutton(text='Censored?', variable=input_var), > ^ > SyntaxError: positional argument follows keyword argument > > I've provided only keyword arguments to the call to the ttk.Checkbutton > widget and am not seeing the positional argument that follows. Please > show > me what I miss seeing here: > > self.inputs['nondetect'] = LabelInput( > self, 'Censored?', > #input_var = tk.BooleanVar(), > input_var = tk.IntVar, > ttk.Checkbutton(text='Censored?', variable=input_var), > ) > > It does not matter if the variable holding the checkbutton's state is an > IntVar or a BooleanVar, the same syntax error is generated. Commenting > out > all widgets prior to this one makes no difference so the error must be > local. Yes? > > Please explain where the positional argument is located. > > Regards, > > Rich
The positional argument in question is not one you passed to the ttk.Checkbutton call, but the ttk.Checkbutton itself that you're passing to LabelInput as a positional argument after the input_var keyword argument Alex -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
