How to get the input from the Tkinter Text Widget?

To get Tkinter input from the text box, you must add a few more attributes to the normal .get() function. If we have a text box myText_Box, then this is the method for retrieving its input.

def retrieve_input():    input = self.myText_Box.get("1.0",END)

The first part, "1.0" means that the input should be read from line one, character zero (ie: the very first character). END is an imported constant which is set to the string "end". The END part means to read until the end of the text box is reached. The only issue with this is that it actually adds a newline to our input. So, in order to fix it we should change END to end-1c(Thanks Bryan Oakley) The -1c deletes 1 character, while -2c would mean delete two characters, and so on.

def retrieve_input():    input = self.myText_Box.get("1.0",'end-1c')

Here is how I did it with python 3.5.2:

from tkinter import *root=Tk()def retrieve_input():    inputValue=textBox.get("1.0","end-1c")    print(inputValue)textBox=Text(root, height=2, width=10)textBox.pack()buttonCommit=Button(root, height=1, width=10, text="Commit",                     command=lambda: retrieve_input())#command=lambda: retrieve_input() >>> just means do this when i press the buttonbuttonCommit.pack()mainloop()

with that, when i typed "blah blah" in the text widget and pressed the button, whatever i typed got printed out. So i think that is the answer for storing user input from Text widget to variable.

To get Tkinter input from the text box in python 3 the complete student level program used by me is as under:

#Imports all (*) classes,#atributes, and methods of tkinter into the#current workspacefrom tkinter import *#***********************************#Creates an instance of the class tkinter.Tk.#This creates what is called the "root" window. By conventon,#the root window in Tkinter is usually called "root",#but you are free to call it by any other name.root = Tk()root.title('how to get text from textbox')#**********************************mystring = StringVar()####define the function that the signup button will dodef getvalue():##    print(mystring.get())#*************************************Label(root, text="Text to get").grid(row=0, sticky=W)  #labelEntry(root, textvariable = mystring).grid(row=0, column=1, sticky=E) #entry textboxWSignUp = Button(root, text="print text", command=getvalue).grid(row=3, column=0, sticky=W) #button############################################# executes the mainloop (that is, the event loop) method of the root# object. The mainloop method is what keeps the root window visible.# If you remove the line, the window created will disappear# immediately as the script stops running. This will happen so fast# that you will not even see the window appearing on your screen.# Keeping the mainloop running also lets you keep the# program running until you press the close butonroot.mainloop()