Python GUI Programming Cookbook, Second Edition - Second Edition

How to do it...

We will assign a value from our GUI to a Python variable.

Add the following code towards the bottom of our module, just above the main event loop:

    strData = spin.get()     print("Spinbox value: " + strData)     # Place cursor into name Entry     name_entered.focus()           #======================     # Start GUI     #======================     win.mainloop() 

Running the code gives us the following result:

We will retrieve the current value of the Spinbox control.

We placed our code above the GUI main event loop, so the printing happens before the GUI becomes visible. We would have to place the code into a callback function if we wanted to print ...