Partial can be used in a GUI program, like Tkinter, to send arguments to functions. There are other ways to do that as well as using partial. The following program uses partial to send the color to the change_buttons function. from Tkinter import * from functools import partial
class App: def __init__(self, parent): self.my_parent = parent self.my_parent.geometry("200x100+10+10") self.R = list() for ctr, color in enumerate(("Red", "Blue", "Green")): btn = Radiobutton(self.my_parent, text=color, value=ctr+1, command=partial(self.change_buttons, color)) btn.grid(row = 2, column = ctr+1) btn.deselect() self.R.append(btn) self.R[0].select() self.change_buttons("Red") def change_buttons(self, color): self.my_parent.configure(bg=color) for btn in self.R: btn.configure(bg=color) if __name__ == "__main__": root = Tk() root.title ("Color Option") app = App(root) root.mainloop() -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list