How To Use Super() When Subclassing Tkinter Widgets?

Trying to create Tkinter window using super(). I get this error: TypeError: super() argument 1 must be type, not classobj Code: import Tkinter as tk class Application(tk.Frame):

Solution 1:

While it is true that Tkinter uses old-style classes, this limitation can be overcome by additionally deriving the subclass Application from object (using Python multiple inheritance):

import Tkinter as tk

class Application(tk.Frame, object):

    def __init__(self, master):
        super(Application, self).__init__(master)
        self.grid()

def main():
    root = tk.Tk()
    root.geometry('200x150')
    app = Application(root)

    root.mainloop()

main()

This will work so long as the Tkinter class doesn't attempt any behaviour which requires being an old-style class to work (which I highly doubt it would). I tested the example above with Python 2.7.7 without any issues.

This work around was suggested here. This behaviour is also included by default in Python 3 (referenced in link).

Solution 2:

Tkinter uses old-style classes. super() can only be used with new-style classes.