How to get a list of all config args? - user-interface

Question

How can get a list of all config args?
from tkinter import *
from tkinter import ttk
root=Tk()
root.config(**args)
root.mainloop()
I tried with:
help(root.config)
The output:
Help on method configure in module tkinter:
configure(cnf=None, **kw) method of tkinter.Tk instance
Configure resources of a widget.
The values for resources are specified as keyword
arguments. To get an overview about
the allowed keyword arguments call the method keys.

Answer 1

If by "config args" you mean all the configurable attributes of a particular widget, you can obtain them like this:
my_widget.config()
In other words, what you just need to do is calling the method config (or configure, which is simply an alias) without arguments, which returns a _dictionary with the attributes, their values and more of the widget.
You could also use the pprint function (from the pprint module) to print nicely the attributes, like in the following example:
from tkinter import *
from pprint import pprint
root = Tk()
pprint(root.config())
And the output is the following:
{'background': ('background',
'background',
'Background',
<border object: 'systemWindowBody'>,
'systemWindowBody'),
'bd': ('bd', '-borderwidth'),
'bg': ('bg', '-background'),
'borderwidth': ('borderwidth',
'borderWidth',
'BorderWidth',
<pixel object: '0'>,
0),
'class': ('class', 'class', 'Class', 'Toplevel', 'Tk'),
'colormap': ('colormap', 'colormap', 'Colormap', '', ''),
'container': ('container', 'container', 'Container', 0, 0),
'cursor': ('cursor', 'cursor', 'Cursor', '', ''),
'height': ('height', 'height', 'Height', <pixel object: '0'>, 0),
'highlightbackground': ('highlightbackground',
'highlightBackground',
'HighlightBackground',
<color object: 'systemWindowBody'>,
'systemWindowBody'),
'highlightcolor': ('highlightcolor',
'highlightColor',
'HighlightColor',
<color object: 'Black'>,
'Black'),
'highlightthickness': ('highlightthickness',
'highlightThickness',
'HighlightThickness',
<pixel object: '0'>,
0),
'menu': ('menu', 'menu', 'Menu', '', ''),
'padx': ('padx', 'padX', 'Pad', <pixel object: '0'>, <pixel object: '0'>),
'pady': ('pady', 'padY', 'Pad', <pixel object: '0'>, <pixel object: '0'>),
'relief': ('relief', 'relief', 'Relief', <index object: 'flat'>, 'flat'),
'screen': ('screen', 'screen', 'Screen', '', ''),
'takefocus': ('takefocus', 'takeFocus', 'TakeFocus', '0', '0'),
'use': ('use', 'use', 'Use', '', ''),
'visual': ('visual', 'visual', 'Visual', '', ''),
'width': ('width', 'width', 'Width', <pixel object: '0'>, 0)}
According to the documentation regarding the config method at effbot.org:
config(cnf=None, **kw)
Modifies one or more widget options.
If called without an argument, this method returns a dictionary containing the current settings for all widget options. For each option key in the dictionary, the value is either a five-tuple (option, option database key, option database class, default value, current value), or a two-tuple (option alias, option). The latter case is used for aliases like bg (background) and bd (border width).
Note that the value fields aren’t correctly formatted for some option types. See the description of the keys method for more information, and a workaround.

Answer 2

Thank you #Axl for your answer .
from tkinter import *
from pprint import pprint
root=Tk()
pprint(root.key())
this code also works for me .