from Tkinter import * class HelloButton(Button): def __init__(self, parent=None, **config): # add callback method Button.__init__(self, parent, config) # and pack myself self.pack() self.config(command=self.callback) def callback(self): # default press action print 'Goodbye world...' # replace in subclasses self.quit() if __name__ == '__main__': HelloButton(text='Hello subclass world').mainloop()