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+"""
+OptionMenu widget modified to allow dynamic menu reconfiguration
+and setting of highlightthickness
+"""
+import copy
+
+from tkinter import OptionMenu, _setit, StringVar, Button
+
+class DynOptionMenu(OptionMenu):
+    """
+    unlike OptionMenu, our kwargs can include highlightthickness
+    """
+    def __init__(self, master, variable, value, *values, **kwargs):
+        # TODO copy value instead of whole dict
+        kwargsCopy=copy.copy(kwargs)
+        if 'highlightthickness' in list(kwargs.keys()):
+            del(kwargs['highlightthickness'])
+        OptionMenu.__init__(self, master, variable, value, *values, **kwargs)
+        self.config(highlightthickness=kwargsCopy.get('highlightthickness'))
+        #self.menu=self['menu']
+        self.variable=variable
+        self.command=kwargs.get('command')
+
+    def SetMenu(self,valueList,value=None):
+        """
+        clear and reload the menu with a new set of options.
+        valueList - list of new options
+        value - initial value to set the optionmenu's menubutton to
+        """
+        self['menu'].delete(0,'end')
+        for item in valueList:
+            self['menu'].add_command(label=item,
+                    command=_setit(self.variable,item,self.command))
+        if value:
+            self.variable.set(value)
+
+def _dyn_option_menu(parent):  # htest #
+    from tkinter import Toplevel # + StringVar, Button
+
+    top = Toplevel(parent)
+    top.title("Tets dynamic option menu")
+    x, y = map(int, parent.geometry().split('+')[1:])
+    top.geometry("200x100+%d+%d" % (x + 250, y + 175))
+    top.focus_set()
+
+    var = StringVar(top)
+    var.set("Old option set") #Set the default value
+    dyn = DynOptionMenu(top,var, "old1","old2","old3","old4")
+    dyn.pack()
+
+    def update():
+        dyn.SetMenu(["new1","new2","new3","new4"], value="new option set")
+    button = Button(top, text="Change option set", command=update)
+    button.pack()
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    from idlelib.idle_test.htest import run
+    run(_dyn_option_menu)