How to Get the Input From Tkinter Text Box

1. Example Code to Get the Input From Tkinter Text Widget
2. Example Code to Fetch the Input Without newline at the End From Tkinter Text Widget

Tkinter Text widget has get() method to return the input from the text box, which has start position argument, and an optional end argument to specify the end position of the text to be fetched.

get(start, end=None)

If end is not given, only one character specified at the start position will be returned.

Example Code to Get the Input From Tkinter Text Widget

import tkinter as tk

root = tk.Tk()
root.geometry("400x240")


def getTextInput():
    result = textExample.get("1.0", "end")
    print(result)


textExample = tk.Text(root, height=10)
textExample.pack()
btnRead = tk.Button(root, height=1, width=10, text="Read", command=getTextInput)

btnRead.pack()

root.mainloop()

result = textExample.get("1.0", "end")

The position of the first character in the Text widget is 1.0, and could be referred to as a number 1.0 or a string "1.0".

"end" means that it reads the input until the end of the Text box. We could also use tk.END instead of the string "end" here.

The tiny issue if we specify "end" as the end position of the text to be returned, it includes also the newline \n character at the end of the text string, as you could see from the above animation.

We could change the "end" argument of the get method to be the "end-1c" if we don’t want the newline in the returned input.

"end-1c" means the position is one character ahead of "end".

Example Code to Fetch the Input Without newline at the End From Tkinter Text Widget

import tkinter as tk

root = tk.Tk()
root.geometry("400x240")


def getTextInput():
    result = textExample.get(1.0, tk.END + "-1c")
    print(result)


textExample = tk.Text(root, height=10)
textExample.pack()
btnRead = tk.Button(root, height=1, width=10, text="Read", command=getTextInput)

btnRead.pack()

root.mainloop()

Here, we could also use tk.END+"-1c" besides "end-1c" to eliminate the last character - \n, because tk.END = "end", therefore tk.END+"-1c" is equal to "end"+"-1c"="end-1c".