Question

I’m trying to execute different code for each tkinter button – the names of which are not know until called from a list. gtk has get label (unfortunately I can’t use gtk).

How might I implement similar with tkinter?

def click_one(newbuttonname):
        try:
                writethisdown = open("participantsmovedlog.txt", 'a')
        except:
                pass
        rotatee = newbuttonname
        thispersonwasrotated(rotatee)
        writethisdown.close()

…. and meanwhile within the makebutton function:

for someuser in listofusers:
            username = someuser
            newbuttonname = username 
            newbuttonname = Tkinter.Button(win, text = newbuttonname, command = lambda:click_one(username))
            newbuttonname.pack()

Answer 1

You are almost there. You simply need to pass the name via lambda or functools.partial:

newbuttonname = username 
newbuttonname = Tkinter.Button(win, text = newbuttonname, 
    command = lambda name=username:click_one(name))

You can use this same technique to pass in the actual wodget, or any other data.