selecting an item from listbox and using the name of the item later
You have to use Bindings to do so,
For Ex:
listnotes.bind("<Return>", dosomething) #to bind to your enterkeyand then the curselection method associated to the Listbox
def dosomething(event): """ on enter, capture the value from the Listbox and assign the value captured to value via the get method form the selected value """ try: selection = listnotes.curselection() value = listnotes.get(selection[0]) except Exception as select: print("Nothing selected") pass