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[Tkinter] getting Entry text
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hello everybody. first post here Smile

i'm having trouble to get the text value inside an Entry box. So, i created this small example that shows up the problem:

import tkinter as tk

root = tk.Tk()
label = tk.Label(root, text="Entry Box")
label.pack()
entry = tk.Entry(root)
entry.pack()
button = tk.Button(root, text="Print", command=print(entry.get()))
button.pack()

root.mainloop()
why doesn't it print the value entered by the user? do i have to update the entry box somehow?
thanks in advance :)
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getting Entry text - by Stauricus - May-09-2019, 04:24 PM
RE: getting Entry text - by Orimura_Sandy - May-09-2019, 04:31 PM
RE: getting Entry text - by Yoriz - May-09-2019, 04:32 PM
RE: getting Entry text - by Stauricus - May-10-2019, 05:32 PM
RE: getting Entry text - by swanysto - May-10-2019, 08:24 PM

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