How to get the selected date for DateEntry in tkcalendar (Python)?

You mention you have tried get_date() and it didn't work, but that's actually the right function.

import tkinter as tkfrom tkinter import ttkfrom tkcalendar import Calendar, DateEntrydef calendar_view():    def print_sel():        print(cal.selection_get())    top = tk.Toplevel(root)    cal = Calendar(top,                   font="Arial 14", selectmode='day',                   cursor="hand1", year=2018, month=2, day=5)    cal.pack(fill="both", expand=True)    ttk.Button(top, text="ok", command=print_sel).pack()def dateentry_view():    def print_sel():        print(cal.get_date())    top = tk.Toplevel(root)    ttk.Label(top, text='Choose date').pack(padx=10, pady=10)    cal = DateEntry(top, width=12, background='darkblue',                    foreground='white', borderwidth=2)    cal.pack(padx=10, pady=10)    ttk.Button(top, text="ok", command=print_sel).pack()root = tk.Tk()s = ttk.Style(root)s.theme_use('clam')ttk.Button(root, text='Calendar', command=calendar_view).pack(padx=10, pady=10)ttk.Button(root, text='DateEntry', command=dateentry_view).pack(padx=10, pady=10)root.mainloop()

If you want to get the date every time it is changed you can use an event binding. From the documentation:

• Virtual Events

A <<CalendarSelected>> event is generated each time the user selects a day with the mouse.

So you can bind the function that gets the date to the <<CalendarSelected>> event:

def dateentry_view():    def print_sel(e):        print(cal.get_date())    top = tk.Toplevel(root)    ttk.Label(top, text='Choose date').pack(padx=10, pady=10)    cal = DateEntry(top, width=12, background='darkblue',                    foreground='white', borderwidth=2)    cal.pack(padx=10, pady=10)    cal.bind("<<DateEntrySelected>>", print_sel)