Tkinter - Text

INTRODUCTION

'Text' widgets are used for entering multiple lines of text.

# textbox1.py
import tkinter as tk   # Py3

root = tk.Tk()

textbox = tk.Text(root)
textbox.grid()
textbox.focus()   # save a click

root.mainloop()   # run the tkinter event loop

Selected keyword arguments in Text()

master=root     # the first argument
width=50   # in text units
height=10   # in text units
wrap="none"   # line wrapping ("none", "char", "word")

Operations

char = textbox.get("line.char")   # rows are numbered from 1
char = textbox.get("1.0")   # the first char from the first row
word = textbox.get(first, last)
word = textbox.get("1.0", "1.5")   # 5 chars
word = textbox.get("1.0", tk.END)   # get all
textbox.delete("line.char")
textbox.delete("1.0")
textbox.delete(first, last)
textbox.delete("1.0", "1.4")
textbox.delete("1.0", tk.END)   # remove all
textbox.insert("line.char", "text")
textbox.insert("1.0", "text")
textbox.insert("2.0", "\nThis is a new line.")
textbox.insert(tk.END, "\nPut me at the end!") # insert at the end