I am writing a program to assist with a trivial part of my job that can be automated. My purpose here is to:
Copy and paste a chunk of plain text into a Tkinter text widget
Use that pasted chunk of text as the value of a variable so that the variable can have certain characters pulled and returned down the line.
I have a functioning little bit of code. For example, here is my text widget and the lines of code I use to get and print its contents:
textBox = Text(root)
textBox.focus_set()
def get_input():
print textBox.get(1.0, 'end-1c')
Then I use a button that uses the command get_input
. It works when it comes to printing the contents of the widget.
Now that I know how to properly call on the contents and 'get' them, I would like to learn how I can assign those contents (a string) to the value of a variable.
I think what you want is this. It will delete all the text and then insert a variable.
def set_input(value):
text.delete(1.0, "END")
text.insert("END", value)
It is Python 2.x only. Python 3 requires that "END" be END from the Tk namespace.
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