Why are all my tkinter optionmenus being updated when I change the values of one menu?

Question

All my option menu widgets are being updated together when I change the values of 1 option menu.

This is what I use to make all of the menus (self.var is initialized as self.var = StringVar(master)):

def makeMenu(self, name, items, r, c):

    self.var.set(items[0])
    name = OptionMenu(self, self.var, *items)
    name.grid(row = r, column = c , padx = self.pad_x, pady = self.pad_y)
    name.config( width = self.menu_width)
    name.menu = Menu(name, tearoff = self.tear_off)

    for i in range(len(items)):
        name.menu.add_command(label = items[i])  

    return name 

When I try to make a new menu and change the items, all of the other menus' items change to the new ones as well.

i.e. when I do this:

self.layout_menu = self.makeMenu("layout_menu", self.layout_sections, 
                                 self.layout_menu_row, self.layout_menu_col)

Answer 1

I really do not think that you need StringVar(master), you just need StringVar()