[Tkinter-discuss] how to hit enter and get the Entry() text

[Guilherme Polo]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 1:59 AM, Alexnb <alexnbryan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Okay, so I am new to Tkinter, and can't figure out how to get the text out of
> my Entry() text box. I know I can make a button or something like that where
> they click it and I get it. But what I want to do is have the user typing in
> the box, and then they hit "return" or "enter" and that also gets it for
> example:
>

You have to bind <Return> to your entry widget.

> [code]
>
> e = Entry(root, width=25)
> e.pack()
>
> Button1 = Button(root, command=get)
> Button1.pack()
>
> def get():
>    print e.get()
>
> [/code]
>

I'm sure you have defined this function "get" before that point since
that code would fail.

> Something like that, only I want to eliminate the button, and make it to
> where the user hits enter in the text box and it does the get() function.
> Help?

def get(event):
    print event.widget.get()

e = Entry(root, width=25)
e.bind('<Return>', get)
e.pack()

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