Notebook Tab methods select forget hide to manage tabs using buttons

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Tkinter Notebook methods to select hide forget tabs and using notebook tab change event

On Click of buttons we will execute different methods. These codes are connected to buttons. Four different buttons are used and On click of the buttons we are executing hide(), add() , forget() and select() methods of Notebook.

b3=tk.Button(my_w,text='hide t-1',command=lambda:my_tabs.hide(tab1))
b3.pack(side=LEFT)
b4=tk.Button(my_w,text='add t-1',command=lambda:my_tabs.add(tab1))
b4.pack(side=LEFT)
b5=tk.Button(my_w,text='forget t-1',command=lambda:my_tabs.forget(tab1))
b5.pack(side=LEFT)
b6=tk.Button(my_w,text='select t-1',command=lambda:my_tabs.select(tab1))
b6.pack(side=LEFT)

Full code is here

import tkinter  as tk 
from tkinter import *
from tkinter import ttk
my_w = tk.Tk()
my_w.geometry("400x200")  
my_tabs = ttk.Notebook(my_w,padding=10) # declaring 

tab0 = ttk.Frame(my_tabs)
tab1 = ttk.Frame(my_tabs)
tab2 = ttk.Frame(my_tabs)

my_tabs.add(tab0, text ='Tab-0') # adding tab
my_tabs.add(tab1, text ='Tab-1') # adding tab 
my_tabs.add(tab2, text ='Tab-2') # adding tab 
my_tabs.pack(expand = 1, fill ="both")

font1=('time',22,'normal')
l1=tk.Label(tab0,text='I am tab-0',bg='yellow',font=font1)
l1.place(relx=0.4,rely=0.2) # using place
l2=tk.Label(tab1,text='I am tab-1',bg='yellow',font=font1)
l2.place(relx=0.4,rely=0.2) # using grid 
l3=tk.Label(tab2,text='I am tab-2',bg='yellow',font=font1)
l3.place(relx=0.4,rely=0.2) # using place

b3=tk.Button(my_w,text='hide t-1',
    command=lambda:my_tabs.hide(tab1))
b3.pack(side=LEFT)
b4=tk.Button(my_w,text='add t-1',
    command=lambda:my_tabs.add(tab1))
b4.pack(side=LEFT)
b5=tk.Button(my_w,text='forget t-1',
    command=lambda:my_tabs.forget(tab1))
b5.pack(side=LEFT)
b6=tk.Button(my_w,text='select t-1',
    command=lambda:my_tabs.select(tab1))
b6.pack(side=LEFT)

my_w.mainloop()  # Keep the window open

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