SubmenuItem

Bases: consolemenu.items.MenuItem

class consolemenu.items.SubmenuItem(text, submenu, menu=None, should_exit=False, menu_char=None)

A menu item to open a submenu

Variables:

• text (str) – The text shown for this menu item
• submenu (ConsoleMenu) – The submenu to be opened when this item is selected
• menu (ConsoleMenu) – The menu to which this item belongs
• should_exit (bool) – Whether the menu should exit once this item’s action is done
• menu_char (str) – The character used to select this menu item. Optional - defaults to None.

action()

This class overrides this method

clean_up()

This class overrides this method

get_return()

Returns:The returned value in the submenu

get_submenu()

We unwrap the submenu variable in case it is a reference to a method that returns a submenu

set_menu(menu)

Sets the menu of this item. Should be used instead of directly accessing the menu attribute for this class.

Parameters:menu (ConsoleMenu) – the menu

set_up()

This class overrides this method