padx pady tkinter code example

Example 1: tkinter allign

from Tkinter import *		#      N=North
root = Tk()					#   W=West E=East
							#     S = South
example = Label(root, text="Hello World!")	
example.grid(row=1, column=1, sticky=W)

Example 2: tkinter widget span multiple colums

checkbutton.grid(columnspan=2, sticky=W)