How to increase the font size of a Text widget?

Question

How to increase the font size of a Text widget?

Answer 1

There are several ways to specify a font: the simplest is a tuple of the form (family, size, style).

import Tkinter as tk

root=tk.Tk()
text=tk.Text(width = 40, height=4, font=("Helvetica", 32))
text.pack()    
root.mainloop()