Populating OptionMenu by using Unique data from MySQL database table.

OptionMenu with option values from MySQL database

In our student table we will collect unique student classes and use them as option of OptionaMenu.
The script will have two parts.

Part I	Part II
Create a list by using data from MySQL student table	Create an OptionMenu by using the elements of the list to display the options

Tkinter OptionMenu options from MySQL or SQLite Database tables for user selection

Part 1 : Creating a list using data from MySQL student table.

We will first establish connection to MySQL database by using sqlalchemy. You can download and use the sql dump of student table here.

The query.
To get the unique class names from the student table we will use DISTINCT sql. Here is the Query we used.

query="SELECT distinct(class) as class FROM student"

Getting records
We will get sqlalchemy result set with data by using the above query. We will convert this result set to a list as we are planning to use as options of OptionMenu.

my_data=my_conn.execute(text(query)) # SQLAlchem engine result set

Using this reselt set of SQLalchem we will create one list.

my_list = [r for r, in my_data] # create a  list

We will connect my_list to our OptionaMenu.

Part 2 : Creating OptionMenu using the elements of the list

We will create the window first

import tkinter as tk
my_w = tk.Tk()
my_w.geometry("250x200")  # Size of the window 
my_w.title("www.plus2net.com")  # Adding a title

We will create a StringVar() and set the default value for the optionMenu.

options = tk.StringVar(my_w)
options.set(my_list[0]) # default value

Set the optionMenu and add the option values

om1 =tk.OptionMenu(my_w, options, *my_list)
om1.grid(row=2,column=5)

Show the window

my_w.mainloop()

Full code is here

Update your MySQL login details ( userid, password and my_database )

from sqlalchemy import create_engine,text
my_conn = create_engine("mysql+mysqldb://id:pw@localhost/my_db")
#path="sqlite:///C:\\testing\\my_db.db"  # SQLite database 
#my_conn = create_engine(path)
my_conn=my_conn.connect()

query="SELECT DISTINCT(class) as class FROM student"
my_data=my_conn.execute(text(query))
my_list = [r for r, in my_data] # create a  list 

import tkinter as tk
my_w = tk.Tk()
my_w.geometry("250x200")  # Size of the window 
my_w.title("www.plus2net.com")  # Adding a title

options = tk.StringVar(my_w)
options.set(my_list[0]) # default value

om1 =tk.OptionMenu(my_w, options, *my_list)
om1.grid(row=2,column=5)

my_w.mainloop()

Conclusion

We have collected data from MySQL table and created one list using the data. In part 2 we created the OptionMenu and connected the data list as option values.

Using this concepts we can further develop applications where OptionMenu is used.

User can remove all or add all the options to an OptionMenu. User can select any option and remove the same by Clicking a button.

Remove all or remove Selective options of an OptionMenu.
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OptionMenu option values from MySQL table

Part 1 : Creating a list using data from MySQL student table.

Part 2 : Creating OptionMenu using the elements of the list

Conclusion

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