Is it possible to have multi label widget ? for example like tabular column ? in Tkinter Python? - python-2.7

Question

Is it possible to create a multi label widget like a tabular column ? For, example as shown in the snapshot attached ?
Kindly let me know or provide some comments if there is any option to create widgets with multi label option ?
Thanks !

Answer 1

There is no built-in way to do that, but it's relatively easy to write your own using a canvas. For example, put one label in the upper-right corner and the other in the lower-left. Then, draw a line from upper-left to lower-right.
Example:
import tkinter as tk
class CustomLabel(tk.Frame):
def __init__(self, parent, label1, label2, **kwargs):
tk.Frame.__init__(self, parent, **kwargs)
self.canvas = tk.Canvas(self, borderwidth=0, highlightthickness=0, background=self.cget("background"))
self.canvas.pack(fill="both", expand=True)
l1 = tk.Label(self.canvas, text=label1, background=self.cget("background"))
l2 = tk.Label(self.canvas, text=label2, background=self.cget("background"))
l1.place(relx=.75, rely=.25, anchor="c")
l2.place(relx=.25, rely=.75, anchor="c")
# arrange for the line to be redrawn whenever the canvas
# changes size
self.canvas.bind("<Configure>", self.handle_configure)
# set the default size to be relative to the requested size
# of the labels plus some margin
width = l1.winfo_reqwidth() + l2.winfo_reqwidth() + 4
height = l1.winfo_reqheight() + l2.winfo_reqheight() + 4
self.canvas.configure(width=width, height=height)
def handle_configure(self, event):
self.canvas.delete("line")
self.canvas.create_line(0,0,event.width, event.height, tags=("line",))
Example usage:
root = tk.Tk()
colors = ("SteelBlue4", "SteelBlue3", "SkyBlue1")
for row in range(3):
for column in range(4):
if row == 0 and column == 0:
widget = CustomLabel(root, "Place", "Name", background=colors[row])
else:
widget = tk.Label(root, text="", background=colors[row])
widget.grid(row=row, column=column, sticky="nsew", padx=1, pady=1)
for row in range(3):
root.grid_rowconfigure(row, uniform="row")
for column in range(4):
root.grid_columnconfigure(column, uniform="column")
Screenshot: