Call the same function when clicking the Button and pressing enter
Solution 1
You can create a function that takes any number of arguments like this:
def clickOrEnterSubmit(self, *args):
#code goes here
This is called an arbitrary argument list. The caller is free to pass in as many arguments as they wish, and they will all be packed into the args
tuple. The Enter binding may pass in its 1 event
object, and the click command may pass in no arguments.
Here is a minimal Tkinter example:
from tkinter import *
def on_click(*args):
print("frob called with {} arguments".format(len(args)))
root = Tk()
root.bind("<Return>", on_click)
b = Button(root, text="Click Me", command=on_click)
b.pack()
root.mainloop()
Result, after pressing Enter
and clicking the button:
frob called with 1 arguments
frob called with 0 arguments
If you're unwilling to change the signature of the callback function, you can wrap the function you want to bind in a lambda
expression, and discard the unused variable:
from tkinter import *
def on_click():
print("on_click was called!")
root = Tk()
# The callback will pass in the Event variable,
# but we won't send it to `on_click`
root.bind("<Return>", lambda event: on_click())
b = Button(root, text="Click Me", command=frob)
b.pack()
root.mainloop()
Solution 2
You could also assign a default value (for example None
) for the parameter event
. For example:
import tkinter as tk
def on_click(event=None):
if event is None:
print("You clicked the button")
else:
print("You pressed enter")
root = tk.Tk()
root.bind("<Return>", on_click)
b = tk.Button(root, text='Click Me!', command=on_click)
b.pack()
root.mainloop()
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user2498110 almost 2 years
I have a GUI that has
Entry
widget and a submitButton
.I am basically trying to use
get()
and print the values that are inside theEntry
widget. I wanted to do this by clicking the submitButton
or by pressing enter or return on keyboard.I tried to bind the
"<Return>"
event with the same function that is called when I press the submit Button:self.bind("<Return>", self.enterSubmit)
But I got an error:
needs 2 arguments
But
self.enterSubmit
function only accepts one, since for thecommand
option of theButton
is required just one.To solve this, I tried to create 2 functions with identical functionalities, they just have different number of arguments.
Is there a more efficient way of solving this?