Change words on tkinter Messagebox buttons

Question

I'm using tkinter's "askokcancel" message box to warn the user, with a pop-up, of an irreversible action.

from tkinter import Tk
Tk().withdraw()
from tkinter.messagebox import askokcancel
askokcancel("Warning", "This will delete stuff")

I'd like to change the text of the 'OK' button (from 'OK') to something like 'Delete', to make it less benign-looking.

Is this possible?

If not, what is another way to achieve it? Preferably without introducing any dependancies...

Answer 1

Why not open a child window thus creating your own box with your own button like this:

from tkinter import *
def messageWindow():
    win = Toplevel()
    win.title('warning')
    message = "This will delete stuff"
    Label(win, text=message).pack()
    Button(win, text='Delete', command=win.destroy).pack()
root = Tk()
Button(root, text='Bring up Message', command=messageWindow).pack()
root.mainloop()

Answer 2

No, there is no way to change the text of the buttons for the built-in dialogs.

Your best option is to create your own dialog. It's not very hard to do, and it gives you absolute control over what is in the dialog widget.