Function parameters and values as string

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Hi all,
I am working on a project with a GUI and I am going to make the interface have multiple possible styles like "Dark Mode". So I thought the best way to store the style is in the form of a string, thinking I could pass the entire string into the configure method. Is this possible? Is there an other way to do this? Please see code below for examples.

 strStyle='activebackground="#ff8040", activeforeground="#000000", background="#c0c0c0", font="-family {Segoe UI} -size 14 -weight bold -slant roman", foreground="#000000"' #Passing the style string s a whole is what I would like to do, but does no work self.btn.configure(strStyle) #--------------------------------- #so I tried to split the string into the individual options with their values, still not working self.btn = tk.Button(top) self.btn.place(x=rowCnt*97, y=0, height=42, width=97) self.btn.configure(text=rowTab[1]) arrayArgAndVal=strStyle.split(",") for itemArgAndVal in arrayArgAndVal: #the first itemArgAndVal='activebackground="#ff8040"' self.btn.configure(itemArgAndVal) #--------------------------------- #then I tried splitting the option from the value, still not working self.btn = tk.Button(top) self.btn.place(x=rowCnt*97, y=0, height=42, width=97) self.btn.configure(text=rowTab[1]) arrayArgAndVal=strStyle.split(",") for itemArgAndVal in arrayArgAndVal: #the first itemArgAndVal='activebackground="#ff8040"' itemArgAndVal=itemArgAndVal.split("=") self.btn.configure(itemArgAndVal[0]=itemArgAndVal[1]) #---------------------------------

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I would recommend to organize your configration settings as a Python dictionary, e.g. = }{

default_style = { 'btn': {'activebackground': "#ff8040", 'activeforeground': "#000000"' }, 'text': {'font': 'xxx'}, 'other element': {a dict} }

dark_theme can be based on default style;

Finally, you can traverse the dictionary and apply configurations to each eleement, e.g do something like this:

def apply_conf(self, conf): for k, v in conf.items(): if hasattr(self, k): getattr(self, k).configure(**v)