How to redirect stdout to a Tkinter Text widget

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The problem is that when you call app.mainloop(), the thread is busy executing the Tkinter mainloop, so the statements before it are not executed until you exit the loop. But once you exit the mainloop, you try to use the Text widget but it is already destroyed.

I recommend you to move the call to main to the callback of a Tkinter widget (I suppose you are already trying to do that with app.button_press()), so the Text object can be used to display the text.

class CoreGUI(object):
    def __init__(self,parent):
        self.parent = parent
        self.InitUI()
        button = Button(self.parent, text="Start", command=self.main)
        button.grid(column=0, row=1, columnspan=2)

    def main(self):
        print('whatever')

    def InitUI(self):
        self.text_box = Text(self.parent, wrap='word', height = 11, width=50)
        self.text_box.grid(column=0, row=0, columnspan = 2, sticky='NSWE', padx=5, pady=5)
        sys.stdout = StdoutRedirector(self.text_box)


root = Tk()
gui = CoreGUI(root)
root.mainloop()

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