'''The Accordion widget inherits from Tkinter's Frame class and provides stacked expandable and collapseable containers for displaying other widgets. Compliant with Python 2.5-2.7 Author: @ifthisthenbreak ''' from Tkinter import Tk, Frame, PhotoImage, Label class Chord(Frame): '''Tkinter Frame with title argument''' def __init__(self, parent, title='', *args, **kw): Frame.__init__(self, parent, *args, **kw) self.title = title class Accordion(Frame): def __init__(self, parent, accordion_style=None): Frame.__init__(self, parent) # if no style dict, assign default style if accordion_style: self.style = accordion_style else: self.style = accordion_style = { 'title_bg': 'ghost white', 'title_fg': 'black', 'highlight': 'white smoke' } self.columnconfigure(0, weight=1) def append_chords(self, chords=[]): '''pass a [list] of Chords to the Accordion object''' self.update_idletasks() row = 0 width = max([c.winfo_reqwidth() for c in chords]) for c in chords: i = PhotoImage() # blank image to force Label to use pixel size label = Label(self, text=c.title, image=i, compound='center', width=width, bg=self.style['title_bg'], fg=self.style['title_fg'], bd=2, relief='groove') label.grid(row=row, column=0) c.grid(row=row+1, column=0, sticky='nsew') c.grid_remove() row += 2 label.bind('', lambda e, c=c: self._click_handler(c)) label.bind('', lambda e, label=label, i=i: label.config(bg=self.style['highlight'])) label.bind('', lambda e, label=label, i=i: label.config(bg=self.style['title_bg'])) def _click_handler(self, chord): if len(chord.grid_info()) == 0: chord.grid() else: chord.grid_remove() if __name__ == '__main__': from Tkinter import Entry, Button, Text root = Tk() # create the Accordion acc = Accordion(root) # first chord first_chord = Chord(acc, title='First Chord', bg='white') Label(first_chord, text='hello world', bg='white').pack() # second chord second_chord = Chord(acc, title='Second Chord', bg='white') Entry(second_chord).pack() Button(second_chord, text='Button').pack() # third chord third_chord = Chord(acc, title='Third Chord', bg='white') Text(third_chord).pack() # append list of chords to Accordion instance acc.append_chords([first_chord, second_chord, third_chord]) acc.pack(fill='both', expand=1) root.mainloop()