Printing textbox input to console with tkinter (python3.7)

Question

I am making tic tac toe in python using tkinter, and the code all works except for when I try to print which player is the winner, I get the following ouput:

The player who won is:  
.!entry

The code I used to print out the winner is this:

        print("The player who won is: ", e1_entry)
        ...

where e1_entry is defined as this:

e1_entry = e1.get()

and e1 is:

e1 = tkinter.Entry(window, textvariable=e1_entry)

How would I make it so that the text taken from the tkinter Entry is printed to the console?

Thanks

Gaurav Bhalla

Answer 1

Here is a working example. You would need to define a function to get the string

import tkinter


def getWinner():
    n = entry1.get()

    if n == "":
        n = "Nobody won"

    print(n)

root = tkinter.Tk()

entry1 = tkinter.Entry(root)
entry1.grid(row = 0, column = 0)

root.after(10000, getWinner)

root.mainloop()

This has an Entry widget, and after 10 seconds, will call the function 'getWinner'. If the Entry widget has no text in it, there will be no winner.

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

You should try something like:

window = Tk()
text = StringVar()
e1 = Entry(window, textvariable = text)
e1.pack()
e1_entry = text.get()
print("The player who won is:", e1_entry)