Tkinter GUI Programming by Example

Searching text

When we need to find a specific piece of text within a Text widget, there is a method called search which will allow us to do this easily.

The search method can take quite a lot of arguments:

• pattern: The pattern to match. This can be either an exact match or a regular expression.
• index: Where to begin the search from.
• stopindex: Where to stop ending a search. If this is not specified, the search will loop.
• forwards: Whether to search from the top to the bottom (this is the default).
• backwards: Whether to search from bottom to top.
• exact: Exact match instead of a regular expression (this is the default).
• regexp: Indicates that the pattern supplied is a regular expression.
• nocase: Whether to ignore case.
• count: A variable which ...