Cannot pass arguments from the tkinter widget.after function

Question

Part of the GUI I\'m building using tkinter has a pop-up window that says \"Please wait while the program is running.\" then after it finishes the window goes away. I\'m usi

Answer 1

I would try functools.partial to wrap your call as in:

widget.after(10, functools.partial(self.runBackup, mybackup))

Or you could define a local function that takes no arguments but passes the parameter (which is in essence what functools.partial does).