How to make Tkinter columns of equal width when widgets span multiple columns (Python 2.7)

Question

In the following, the buttons labelled \'ONE\', \'TWO\', and \'THR\' do not get evenly spaced out. It seems to me that the root of the problem is that Tk is assuming a defau

Answer 1

import tkinter

master = tkinter.Tk()

tkinter.Button(master, text='ONE                ').grid(row=0, column=3, sticky='NW')
tkinter.Button(master, text='TWO               ').grid(row=1, column=3, sticky='NW')
tkinter.Button(master, text='THR                ').grid(row=2, column=3, sticky='NW')
tkinter.Button(master, text='FOU                ').grid(row=3, column=3, sticky='NW')
tkinter.Text(master).grid(column=30, columnspan=10)