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Python GUI Programming with Tkinter
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Python GUI Programming with Tkinter

by Alan D. Moore
May 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
452 pages
11h 26m
English
Packt Publishing
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The Text widget

The Text widget is much more than just a multiline Entry widget. It has a powerful tagging system that allows you to implement multicolored text, hyperlink-style clickable text, and more. Unlike other widgets, it can't be bound to a Tkinter StringVar, so setting or retrieving its contents needs to be done through its get(), insert(), and delete() methods.

When reading or modifying with these methods, you are required to pass in one or two index values to select the character or range of characters that you're operating on. These index values are strings that can take any of the following formats:

  • The line number and character number separated by a dot. Lines are numbered from 1 and characters from 0, so the first character ...
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