greenflame wrote in news:1149305472.893535.67770 @h76g2000cwa.googlegroups.com in comp.lang.python:
> Ok so I played with your script. Here is a script that more closely > mimics what I would like to do except that the way I make the variable > deckstr will be different. The only thing I am confused about is that > it opens the second window in the beginning and when I click on the > button, it does nothing even after I have closed the other window. > > from Tkinter import * > from string import join > > root = Tk() > > def showdeck(deck): > deckwin = Toplevel() > deckstr = join(deck, "\n") > Label(deckwin, text=deckstr, justify=LEFT, anchor=W, > font="Courier").pack(fill=X) > > L = Button(root, text="Show Deck", font="Courier", > command=showdeck(list('zxcvbnm'))) You made the buttons command option None (which is what showdeck() returns), you need to make command a function that calls showdeck(list('zxcvbnm')). L = Button(root, text="Show Deck", font="Courier", command= lambda : showdeck(list('zxcvbnm'))) > L.pack() > > root.mainloop() > lambda's docs online: http://docs.python.org/ref/lambdas.html Rob. -- http://www.victim-prime.dsl.pipex.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list