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guis and data

The Entry and Text widgets let you enter

text data into your GUI
A TEXT FIELD is just a

If you look at the interface design, you’ll see that there are two different types box on the screen that you
of text field you will need to handle: short text and longer, multi-line text can use to enter text.
fields. To deal with these two needs, Python’s tkinter library has two different
widgets for each data-entry type:

Entry widget: for entering single lines of text

The Entry widget is what you’ll use for most of the text fields. You can
create an Entry widget like this:

One single line of text

my_small_field = Entry(app)
Remember that you
always need to import the
tkinter library first.

Text widget: for longer, multi-line text

Because not all text data fits on a single line, tkinter has the Text widget.
Think of email messages, Wikipedia pages, and word processing documents.
For large multi-line data, you need something other than Entry. You need Multiple lines of text
Text:

my_large_field = Text(app)

You can enter large pieces of
textual data in here.

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control the data inside it.

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