Closing a Tkinter Entry Box in Python
If I understand you correctly, then all you need to do is call the root window's destroy method at the end of the getName function:
def getName(): print ent.get() root.destroy()Doing so is equivalent to manually clicking the X button in the corner of the window.
Alternate method:
since there isn't much to your popup you could also eliminate several lines of code in your GUI, save some CPU and get pretty much the same output with this:
submitvariablename=raw_input('Please enter a Name')same functionality and much faster, cleaner.
Just a thought.