Your first problem is that the call to get in entry = E1.get() happens even before your program starts, so clearly entry will point to some empty string. Your eventual second problem is that the text would anyhow be printed only after the mainloop finishes, i.e. you close the tkinter application. If you want to … Read more
You need to do two things: keep a reference to the widget, and then use the get() method to get the string. Here’s an example: self.entry = Entry(…) … print(“the text is”, self.entry.get())
You might want to use insert method. You can find the documentation for the Tkinter Entry Widget here. This script inserts a text into Entry. The inserted text can be changed in command parameter of the Button. from tkinter import * def set_text(text): e.delete(0,END) e.insert(0,text) return win = Tk() e = Entry(win,width=10) e.pack() b1 = … Read more
It looks like you may be confused as to when commands are run. In your example, you are calling the get method before the GUI has a chance to be displayed on the screen (which happens after you call mainloop. Try adding a button that calls the get method. This is much easier if you … Read more