Create variable number of Entry widgets with names from list

Question

I have a tkinter window that am creating labels and entry widgets based on a list made by a database query.

I need to use the values entered in the entry widgets to create a new list to put into another database.

The list from the database has a variable count. I use a loop to create the labels and entry widgets but can't work out how to name the entry widgets to be able to put the entries into a usable list. Ideally it will have the e.get from the original query and the list tied to each of the entries.

Heres what i have so far.

    #Create frame for Size inputs and labels
        sizes_frame = tk.Frame(p,bg='yellow')
        sizes_frame.grid(row=2,column=1)
        connection = sqlite3.connect('productdata.db')
        pro = connection.cursor()
        pro.execute("SELECT Size FROM Products WHERE ColourCode = ?", (e.get(),))
        connection.commit()
        Sizes = pro.fetchall()
            
        keys = Sizes
        otherkeys = Sizes
        count = 0
        othercount = 0
        labels=[]
        otherlabels=[]
    
        for j,l in enumerate(labels):
            l.config(text=str(keys[j])+str(j))
        for key in keys:
            
            labels.append(Label(sizes_frame,text=key,font=('Helvatical bold',10)))
            if count <10:
                labels[count].grid(row = count, column = 1, padx=5, pady= 5)
                count+=1
            else:
                labels[count].grid(row = count-10, column = 3, padx=5, pady= 5)
                count += 1
    
        for j,l in enumerate(otherlabels):
            l.config(text=str(otherkeys[j])+str(j)) 
        for otherkey in otherkeys:
            otherlabels.append(Entry(sizes_frame,width= 6))
            if othercount<10:
                otherlabels[othercount].grid(row = othercount, column = 2, padx=5, pady= 5)
                othercount += 1
            else:
                otherlabels[othercount].grid(row = othercount-10, column = 4, padx=5, pady= 5)
                othercount += 1

Answer 1

I'm not sure if I understand problem but maybe you should use dictionary with nested list instead of list

all_labels  = { e.get(): [] }  # list inside dictionary
all_entries = { e.get(): [] }  # list inside dictionary

and later append widgets

all_labels[e.get()].append(label)
all_entries[e.get()].append(entry)

And later you can get all values using for loop and e.get()

for entry in all_entries[e.get()]:
    print(entry.get())

Eventually you can use nested dictionares

all_labels  = { e.get(): {} }  # dictionary inside dictionary
all_entries = { e.get(): {} }  # dictionary inside dictionary

and later append widgets

all_labels[e.get()][size] = label
all_entries[e.get()][size] = entry

And later you can get all values using for loop and e.get() and .items()

for size, entry in all_entries[e.get()].items():
    print(size, entry.get())

---

Minimal example with other changes to make code more readable.

Because words entry,entries and label,labels and size,sizes are very similar (and it can make problems) so I use prefix `all_

sizes_frame = tk.Frame(p, bg='yellow')
sizes_frame.grid(row=2, column=1)

connection = sqlite3.connect('productdata.db')
pro = connection.cursor()
pro.execute("SELECT Size FROM Products WHERE ColourCode = ?", (e.get(),))
connection.commit()

all_sizes = pro.fetchall()
    
all_labels  = { e.get(): {} }
all_entries = { e.get(): {} }

for number, size in enumerate(all_sizes):
    label = tk.Label(sizes_frame, text=size, font=('Helvatical bold',10))
    entry = tk.Entry(sizes_frame, width=6)
    
    if number < 10:
        label.grid(row=number, column=1, padx=5, pady=5)
        entry.grid(row=number, column=2, padx=5, pady=5)
    else:
        label.grid(row=number-10, column=3, padx=5, pady=5)
        entry.grid(row=number-10, column=4, padx=5, pady=5)
        
    all_labels[e.get()][size] = label)
    all_entries[e.get()][size] = entry


# --- in some function ---

for size, entry in all_entries[e.get()].items():
    print(size, entry.get())
    # ... add `size` and `entry.get()` to database