How to print the Entry() of a function in another functiion?

[Marcozeus]

Hi, I'm trying to print the string of: Entry "motTexte" who is located in getWord(), in draw(). But everytime in write something in the entry, it prints an empty line in the Python IDLE.

The code:

from time import *
from math import *
from re import *
from tkinter import *
 
 
 
def getWord():
    rootMot = Toplevel(root)
    motTexte = Entry(rootMot)
    motTexte.get()
    motTexte.pack()
    getWord.motFinal = motTexte.get()
    boutonMot = Button(rootMot, text="Submit", width=10,
                       command=lambda: draw(rootMot))
    boutonMot.pack()
 
 
def draw(widget):
    print(getWord.motFinal)
    widget.destroy()
    gameDraw = Canvas(root, width=200, height=100)
    gameDraw.pack()
 
 
 
#Create the menu
root = Tk()
menu = Menu(root)
root.config(menu=menu)
 
 
gameOptions = Menu(menu)
menu.add_cascade(label="Game", menu=gameOptions)
gameOptions.add_command(label="New Game", command=getWord)
gameOptions.add_command(label="Options...", command=getWord)
gameOptions.add_separator()
gameOptions.add_command(label="Exit", command=getWord)
 
 
helpOptions = Menu(menu)
menu.add_cascade(label="Help", menu=helpOptions)
helpOptions.add_command(label="How to play...", command=getWord)
helpOptions.add_command(label="About...", command=getWord)
mainloop()

Thank you

PS: I'm french so sorry if you don't understand some variables :)

[bvdet]

At the time of assignment to getWord.motFinal, there is no text in motTexte. You can add motTexte as an argument in the button callback and call get() in draw().

def getWord():
    rootMot = Toplevel(root)
    motTexte = Entry(rootMot)
    motTexte.get()
    motTexte.pack()
    boutonMot = Button(rootMot, text="Submit", width=10,
                       command=lambda: draw(rootMot, motTexte))
    boutonMot.pack()
 
def draw(top, widget):
    print(widget.get())
    top.destroy()
    gameDraw = Canvas(root, width=200, height=100)
    gameDraw.pack()

You should consider encompassing your dialogs in a class object where individual elements are created as instance objects and can be accessed by attribute reference (as in self.motTexte).