Terry J. Reedy added the comment: The reverenced post did not give a runnable minimal example with the claimed bug, but only described more complex code at a now dead link. The following from http://effbot.org/tkinterbook/entry.htm works on my Win7 machine.
import tkinter as tk master = tk.Tk() e = tk.Entry(master) e.pack() e.focus_set() def callback(): print(e.get()) b = tk.Button(master, text="get", width=10, command=callback) b.pack() tk.mainloop() ---------- resolution: -> out of date stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9673> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com