[Tkinter] Settting Default Values for grid

[deanhystad]

You could make your own class.

import tkinter as tk

class MyLabel(tk.Label):
    '''A Label with padding that takes on parents background color'''
    def __init__(self, parent=None, text='', row=0, col=0, padx=5, pady=5, **kwargs):
        bg = None if parent is None else parent['bg']
        super().__init__(parent, text=text, bg=bg, **kwargs)
        self.grid(row=row, column=col, padx=padx, pady=pady)

root = tk.Tk()
root.configure(bg='black')
MyLabel(root, "Red", 0, 0, fg='blue')
MyLabel(root, "Blue", 1, 1, fg='green')
MyLabel(root, "Green", 2, 2, fg='red')

root.mainloop()

You could write a helper function.

import tkinter as tk

def new_label(parent=None, text='', row=0, col=0, padx=5, pady=5, **kwargs):
    bg = None if parent is None else parent['bg']
    label = tk.Label(parent, text=text, bg=bg, **kwargs)
    label.grid(row=row, column=col, padx=padx, pady=pady)
    return label

root = tk.Tk()
root.configure(bg='black')
new_label(root, "Red", 0, 0, fg='blue')
new_label(root, "Blue", 1, 1, fg='green')
new_label(root, "Green", 2, 2, fg='red')

root.mainloop()

You could make your controls in a loop.

import tkinter as tk

root = tk.Tk()
root.configure(bg='black')
for index, config in enumerate(zip(('Red', 'Blue', 'Green'), ('blue', 'green', 'red'))):
    text, fg = config
    label = tk.Label(root, text=text, fg=fg, bg='black')
    label.grid(row=index, column=index, padx=5, pady=5)

root.mainloop()