How do I get the background color of a Tkinter Canvas widget

Question

I need to create a rectangle in a Canvas widget using the background color as the fill color. I don't care what color the background of the Canvas is, I just want to get the color. So the relevant bit of code would look like this:

myCanvas.create_rectangle(x0, y0, x1, y1, outline=myCanvas.bgcolor(),
                          fill=myCanvas.bgcolor())

Where naturally myCanvas.bgcolor() is what I'm after.

I've seen lots of examples of setting this and other parameters, but none for getting.

Answer 1

You should be able to access the color through myCanvas["background"]

myCanvas.create_rectangle( x0, y0, x1, y1, outline=myCanvas["background"], fill=myCanvas["background"])