def show_edit_tracker_dialog(list): print list textbuffer = gtk.TextBuffer(table=None) textbuffer.set_text("list") edit_glade = gtk.glade.XML(common.get_glade_file("edit_list.glade")) edit_list = edit_glade.get_widget("editlist") edit_list.set_buffer(textbuffer) edit_list.show_all() edit_list.set_buffer(textbuffer) AttributeError: 'gtk.Window' object has no attribute 'set_buffer'