Lists

When more than two choices are available to the user, the best way to list them is through lists. The tkinter module provides a ListBox, which allows us to show a set of entries in a scrollable widget for the user to pick from.

We can use this to implement a dialog where the user can pick one of many options and grab the chosen one:

How to do it...

The simpledialog.Dialog class can be used to implement simple OK/cancel dialogs, and allows us to provide any body of the dialog with custom content.

We can use it to add a message and a list to a dialog and let the user make a selection:

import tkinter
from tkinter import simpledialog


class ChoiceDialog(simpledialog.Dialog):
    def __init__(self, parent, title, text...