My favorite online game is to see who's currently viewing an unanswered thread in the DaniWeb C/C++ forums and then try to type an answer faster than they can. :P
It has not been happening lately. It was an anomaly of sorts I suppose (bug?). It was not as if I was entering one, single character in reply to a post such as "A" or "3" for example. Even if this was the case, there should be no reasonable explanation to why this would be illegal.
Also, as far as I know, I would not be using any special characters via my input, unless perhaps Daniweb's system considers "_" or "space" to be a special character and illegal as some sites do.
Okay, pack() will do just fine. However, most programmers prefer Tkinter's grid() layout manager over pack() or place(). Here is a little helper file for pack() I wrote some time ago ...
# looking at the Tkinter pack() layout manager
import Tkinter as tk
root = tk.Tk()
b1 = tk.Button(root, text="Button1")
b2 = tk.Button(root, text="Button2")
b3 = tk.Button(root, text="Button3")
b4 = tk.Button(root, text="Button4")
b5 = tk.Button(root, text="Button5")
b6 = tk.Button(root, text="Button6")
b7 = tk.Button(root, text="Button7")
# line widgets up from top down
b1.pack(side=tk.TOP)
# can also use 'top' and expand in horizontal x direction
b2.pack(side='top', fill='x', expand='yes')
# line widgets up from left to right
b3.pack(side=tk.LEFT)
# can also use 'left' and pad in x and y directions
b4.pack(side='left', padx=10, pady=30)
# these will line up on top of each other left of button4
b5.pack()
b6.pack()
b7.pack()
# dictionary of pack info for button2
print b2.pack_info()
root.mainloop()
vegaseat: Why is grid () preferred over pack () and place()? Just curious. ;)
