from Tkinter import * class MyApp: def __init__(self, myParent): self.myContainer1 = Frame(myParent) self.myContainer1.pack() self.button1 = Button(self.myContainer1) self.button1["text"]= "Hello, World!" self.button1["background"] = "green" self.button1.pack() root = Tk() myapp = MyApp(root) root.mainloop()