it makes buttons from strings given on the command line and the strings are commands for the buttons to do

tkcommandbuttons.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
# vim: ft=python

'''
it makes buttons from strings given on the command line
and the strings are commands for the buttons to do

escaping is hard

'''

from argparse import ArgumentParser
from tkinter import Tk,Button
from subprocess import run
from shlex import split


args = ArgumentParser()
args.add_argument("cmds",nargs="*")
ns = args.parse_args()
q = lambda *_:_[0].widget.quit()
pack = dict(fill="both",expand=True)


def button(master,command):
    f = lambda:run(split(command))
    b = Button(master,text=command,command=f)
    b.pack(**pack)


class main(Tk):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()
        self.bind("<Control-q>",q)
        self.bind("q",q)
        self.bind("<Escape>",q)
        self.bind(("Z","Z"),q)
        self.bind("<Control-bracketleft>",q)
        for cmd in ns.cmds:
            button(self,cmd)


main().mainloop()

example usage

./tkcommandbuttons.py 'echo foo' 'echo bar'

makes a gui with 2 buttons one echoes foo and the other echoes bar