[wxPython-users] widget suggestion / question

[Mark Erbaugh]

Chris,

On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 11:19 -0800, Christopher Barker wrote:
> Mark Erbaugh wrote:
> > Thanks for the example. I think it should work, but I was hoping to
> > avoid using the widget's label. It's possible that you might want to
> > change the label text (say for internationalization) without changing
> > the underlying code.
> 
> right, the label isn't necessarily the best key. yous can use the Label, 
> you can use the ID (which you can get by .getID(), after creating the 
> object with the default).
> 
> Most importantly though -- this is Python! it's been said before in this 
> thread, but it bears repeating: you can any attribute you want to any 
> object, no problem at all. For instance, using the previous example, I 
> might do:

Yes, I understand this and have used it.  I still think it would be nice
if there were an 'official' data member that the user could use for
whatever was needed.

Mark