Setting StringVar() not setting string within variable

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The following is the functional issue I'm dealing with. While this example doesn't do it, word is being set by a for loop, so I can't just set "dave" with a string. However, if you run it, you can see that "word" is printing "smith" and "dave" is printing "PYVAR0." How can I fix it so "dave" prints "smith"?

from Tkinter import *
import ttk
root = Tk()
word = "smith"
print word
dave = StringVar()
dave.set(word)
print dave

user2555451 · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-10 21:35:06Z

1

You need to invoke dave.get:

print dave.get()

Doing so will return the string value contained in the StringVar.

answered Feb 10, 2014 at 21:35

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