Why is Tkinter widget stored as None? (AttributeError: ‘NoneType’ object …)(TypeError: ‘NoneType’ object …)

#AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute ... Example

try:                        # In order to be able to import tkinter for
    import tkinter as tk    # either in python 2 or in python 3
except ImportError:
    import Tkinter as tk

root = tk.Tk()

widget = tk.Label(root, text="Label 1").grid()
widget.config(text="Label A")

root.mainloop()

Above code produces the error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:UsersuserDocumentsPythonotherscript.py", line 8, in <module>
    widget.config(text="Label A")
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'config'

Similarly the code piece:

#TypeError: 'NoneType' object does not support item assignment Example

try:                        # In order to be able to import tkinter for
    import tkinter as tk    # either in python 2 or in python 3
except ImportError:
    import Tkinter as tk

root = tk.Tk()

widget = tk.Button(root, text="Quit").pack()
widget['command'] = root.destroy

root.mainloop()

produces the error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:UsersuserDocumentsPythonotherscript2.py", line 8, in <module>
    widget['command'] = root.destroy
TypeError: 'NoneType' object does not support item assignment

And in both cases:

>>>print(widget)
None

Why is that, why is widget stored as None, or why do I get the errors above when I try configuring my widgets?

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Answers:

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Method 1

widget is stored as None because geometry manager methods grid, pack, place return None, and thus they should be called on a separate line than the line that creates an instance of the widget as in:

widget = ...
widget.grid(..)

or:

widget = ...
widget.pack(..)

or:

widget = ...
widget.place(..)

And for the 2nd code snippet in the question specifically:

widget = tkinter.Button(...).pack(...)

should be separated to two lines as:

widget = tkinter.Button(...)
widget.pack(...)

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