Problems getting tk Combobox contents to populate properly

[dford]

I could use some help with tkinter comboboxes, and populating the combobox from a database. First question is, will the combobox accept a dictionary like key/value structure? Like (1,"Task Example 1"). I want to select based on a shown phrase, but return and do further processing with an associated index/key value. If the tkinter combobox can't do that, I have to try some other GUI framework.

Second question is, what is the proper phrasing to populate a combobox when taking data from a dataframe? I've tried everything, including converting a dataframe to a dictionary, and can't get it to work properly. Usually I get one column, with a separate line item for each word of the phrase, rather than the whole phrase on a line. I'm tried what seems like scores of different addressing approaches to the dataframe, with no luck, so I just left the addressing/slice info off below.

I've tried tracking down answers on several websites, including this one, but the information is always specific to that poster's code, and never seems transferable to mine.

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import sqlite3 import pandas as pd import tkinter as tk from tkinter import ttk   cnxn= sqlite3.connect('E:/taskmanager/taskmanager.db')   cbodf=pd.read_sql_query('Select TaskID, Headline from MainTasks', cnxn) root=tk.Tk() root.title("Task Manager") root.geometry("500x300+50+50") current_var = tk.StringVar() cboTask = ttk.Combobox(root, textvariable=current_var)   cboTask['values']=cbodf cboTask.pack(fill=tk.X, padx=5, pady=15)   root.mainloop()

Here is some sample data, in case someone needed it:

"TaskID","Requester","Headline"
6,"David","Set up SQL Server to use Python"
8,"David","Make Python talk to sql server"

[dford]

I made some progress in getting things to populate by using fetchall() instead of a dataframe, but I'm still getting my key value concatenated to the text, whereas I'd like that hidden, but accessible through code. Here's my new code:

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import sqlite3 import pandas as pd import tkinter as tk from tkinter import ttk   cnxn= sqlite3.connect('E:/taskmanager/taskmanager.db') c=cnxn.cursor() c.execute('Select TaskID, Headline from MainTasks')   root=tk.Tk() root.title("Task Manager") root.geometry("500x300+50+50") current_var = tk.StringVar() cboTask = ttk.Combobox(root, textvariable=current_var) cboTask['values']=c.fetchall()   cboTask.pack(fill=tk.X, padx=5, pady=15)   root.mainloop()

[menator01]

Might could try something like this

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#! /usr/bin/env python3   import tkinter as tk from tkinter import ttk   root = tk.Tk() root['padx'] = 5 root['pady'] = 4   def update(*args):     label['text'] = f'Key -> {key.get()} | Value -> {mydict[key.get()]}'   mydict = {'A':5, 'B': 2, 'C': 1, 'D': 3, 'E': 4, 'F': 0} data = list(mydict.keys())   key = tk.StringVar() combobox = ttk.Combobox(root, values=data, textvariable=key) combobox.pack(side='top')   key.trace('w', update)   label = tk.Label(root) label.pack(side='left') root.mainloop()

[dford]

Thank you menator01. Will try to adapt it to what I have.

[dford]

Ok, was able to meld this with my database code. Keys and values seem to be swapped, but I compensated and it is working visually. I get an error if I put them the way I thought they should go.
Thanks again.

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# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- """ Created on Fri Jan  7 17:23:52 2022   @author: DSNoS """   import sqlite3 import tkinter as tk from tkinter import ttk   root=tk.Tk() root.title("Task Manager") root.geometry("500x300+50+50")   def update(*args):     label['text'] = f'Key -> {key.get()} | Value -> {mydict[key.get()]}'         cnxn= sqlite3.connect('E:/taskmanager/taskmanager.db') c=cnxn.cursor() c.execute('Select Headline, TaskID from MainTasks')   mydict=dict(c.fetchall())   data = list(mydict.keys())   key = tk.StringVar()   cboTask = ttk.Combobox(root, textvariable=key , values=data)   cboTask.pack(fill=tk.X, padx=5, pady=15)   key.trace('w', update) label = tk.Label(root) label.pack(side='left') root.mainloop()