Generate blocks of Python code with for loop

Question

I made a small GUI program with PyGtk for parametrically drawing the frame of a bike (the idea: you move some slider, and the frame gets redrawn with the updated parameter).

Somewhere in the code, I must create a slider for each parameter, and I get this very non-pythonic and repetitive code (sorry, I could not get the indentation right while writing this message):

def adjustbottomBracketHeight(par):
    BikeDrawing.p.bottomBracketHeight = par.get_value()
    painelhoriz.queue_draw()
bottomBracketHeightAdjust = gtk.Adjustment(value=BikeDrawing.p.bottomBracketHeight, lower=180., upper=400., step_incr=10.)
bbhScale = gtk.HScale(adjustment=bottomBracketHeightAdjust)
bbhScale.set_value_pos(gtk.POS_LEFT)
bbhScale.connect("value-changed", adjustbottomBracketHeight)
bbhLabel = gtk.Label("Bottom bracket height")
topcolumn1.pack_start(bbhLabel, False, False)
topcolumn1.pack_start(bbhScale, True, True)

def adjustseatTubeAngle(par):
    BikeDrawing.p.seatTubeAngle = par.get_value()
    painelhoriz.queue_draw()    
seatTubeAngleAdjust = gtk.Adjustment(value=BikeDrawing.p.seatTubeAngle, lower=60., upper=85., step_incr=0.5)
staScale = gtk.HScale(adjustment=seatTubeAngleAdjust)
staScale.set_value_pos(gtk.POS_LEFT)
staScale.connect("value-changed", adjustseatTubeAngle)
staLabel = gtk.Label("Seat tube angle")
topcolumn1.pack_start(staLabel, False, False)
topcolumn1.pack_start(staScale, True, True)

def adjustSeatTubeLength(par):
    BikeDrawing.p.seatTubeLength = par.get_value()
    painelhoriz.queue_draw()
seatTubeLengthAdjust = gtk.Adjustment(value=BikeDrawing.p.seatTubeLength, lower=300., upper=700., step_incr=10.)
stlScale = gtk.HScale(adjustment=seatTubeLengthAdjust)
stlScale.set_value_pos(gtk.POS_LEFT)
stlScale.connect("value-changed", adjustSeatTubeLength)
topcolumn1.pack_start(stlScale, True, True)

def adjusttopTubeLength(par):
    BikeDrawing.p.topTubeLength = par.get_value()
    painelhoriz.queue_draw()
topTubeLengthAdjust = gtk.Adjustment(value=BikeDrawing.p.topTubeLength,
    lower=400., upper=700., step_incr=10.)
ttlScale = gtk.HScale(adjustment=topTubeLengthAdjust)
ttlScale.set_value_pos(gtk.POS_LEFT)
ttlScale.connect("value-changed", adjusttopTubeLength)
topcolumn1.pack_start(ttlScale, True, True)

Well with some minor adaptations, I would like (to know how ;o) to "create" this kind of code iterating over a list of the parameter names, something similar to:

par_list = ['bottomBracketHeight', 'seatTubeAngle', 'seatTubeHeight']
def widgetize(PARAMETER):
    """ Create blocks of code where the name PARAMETER would be used to personalize names of handlers, functions, objects, etc. """

for par in par_list:
    widgetize(par)

I read some previous questions/answers and there seems not to be an answer to this specific problem.

I appreciate very much your attention

Answer 1

I think this is more or less what you're after:

def makeAdjuster(name, attr, lower, upper, step):
    def doAdjust(par):
        setattr(Bikedrawing.p, attr, par.get_value())
        panelhoriz.queue_draw()

    val = getattr(Bikedrawing.p, attr)
    adjust = gtk.Adjustment(value=val, lower=lower, upper=upper, step_incr=step)

    label = gtk.Label(name)
    topcolumn1.pack_start(label, False, False)

    scale = gtk.HScale(adjustment=adjust)
    scale.set_value_pos(gtk.POS_LEFT)
    scale.connect("value-changed", doAdjust)
    topcolumn1.pack_start(scale, True, True)

for adj in (
    ('Bottom bracket height', 'bottomBracketHeight', 180., 400., 10.),
    ('Seat tube angle', 'seatTubeAngle', 60., 80., 0.5),
    ('Seat tube length', 'seatTubeLength', 300., 700., 10.),
    ('Top tube length', 'topTubeLength', 400., 700., 10.)
):
    makeAdjuster(*adj)