What is Entry Widget?

Entry widget is a standard Tkinter widget to take single line input from the user. It can also be used to show some editable information to the user.

Example

The following Python script creates a window containing one entry and a button widget. Entry widget is used here to take the user’s name and on buttons click entered name will be printed on the console.

You need to write following code in any text editor and then save it with .py extension. To execute the application type py EntryExample.py command in terminal.

from tkinter import *

window = Tk()

window.title("Studyfied.com")
window.geometry('350x200')

# Entry widget
entry = Entry(window)
entry.pack()

# Python function associated with 'button'
def sayHello():
    name = entry.get()
    print("Hello", name)

# A button
button = Button(window, text="Say, Hello", command=sayHello)
button.pack()

window.mainloop()

Output

Explanation

Following line creates a Tkinter window

from tkinter import *

window = Tk()

window.title("Studyfied.com")
window.geometry('350x200')

See explanation of Tkinter window – Tkinter top level window

The following block of code creates an entry widget.

# Entry widget
entry = Entry(window)
entry.pack()

Properties

• window – The container window.

The second line entry.pack(), is geometry manager that packs widgets into rows or columns.

This block creates a button widget

# A button
button = Button(window, text="Say, Hello", command=sayHello)
button.pack()

Here button widget is used to print user’s entered text into the console.
See more about button widget – Tkinter button widget

Some entry properties