I tested the following code and wanted to get the message of "oval2 got hit" if I click the red one. But I always got "oval1 got hit". from Tkinter import * root=Tk() canvas=Canvas(root,width=100,height=100) canvas.pack() a=canvas.create_oval(10,10,20,20,tags='oval1',fill='blue') b=canvas.create_oval(50,50,80,80,tags='oval2',fill='red') def myEvent(event): if a: print "oval1 got hit!" else: print "oval2 got hit" canvas.tag_bind('oval1','<Button>',func=myEvent) canvas.tag_bind('oval2','<Button>',func=myEvent) root.mainloop() -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list