Message and Entry
The Message and
Entry widgets allow for display and
input of simple text. Both are essentially functional subsets of the
Text widget we’ll meet later;
Text can do everything Message and Entry can, but not vice versa.
Message
The Message widget is
simply a place to display text. Although the standard showinfo dialog we met earlier is perhaps
a better way to display pop-up messages, Message splits up long strings
automatically and flexibly, and can be embedded inside container
widgets any time you need to add some read-only text to a display.
Moreover, this widget sports more than a dozen configuration options
that let you customize its appearance. Example 9-16 and Figure 9-21 illustrate
Message basics; see a Tk or
Tkinter reference for other options it supports.

Figure 9-21. A Message widget at work
Example 9-16. PP3E\Gui\tour\message.py
from Tkinter import *
msg = Message(text="Oh by the way, which one's Pink?")
msg.config(bg='pink', font=('times', 16, 'italic'))
msg.pack( )
mainloop( )Entry
The Entry widget is a
simple, single-line text input field. It is typically used for input
fields in form-like dialogs, and anywhere else you need the user to
type a value into a field of a larger display. Entry also supports advanced concepts such
as scrolling, key bindings for editing, and text selections, but
it’s simple to use in practice. Example 9-17 builds the ...