tkinter python maximize window

Question

I want to initialize a window as maximized, but I can't find out how to do it. I'm using python 3.3 and Tkinter 8.6 on windows 7. I guess the answer is just here: http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl/TkCmd/wm.htm#m8 but I have no idea how to input it into my python script

Besides, I need to get the width and height of the window (both as maximised and if the user re-scale it afterwards), but I guess I can just find that out myself.

Answer 1

You can do it by calling

root.state('zoomed')