Problems with creating label in tkinter

Question

I create simple label in tkinter but it is created with {}, what I don't want to.

gameOver=Label(root, text=('Game over!\nYou scored', number, ' points!'),
                               font=('Arial Black', '26'), bg='red')

That is my code, where number is variable. But it prints "{Game over! You scored} 0 {points!}" That is what get with this code (0 is value of number)

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Any ideas to solve this problem are welcome

Kevin · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-26 17:26:46Z

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('Game over!\nYou scored', number, ' points!') is a tuple of three items, but text probably expects a string instead, and does strange things to arguments of other types. Use string concatenation or format to provide a single string.

gameOver=Label(root, text='Game over!\nYou scored' + str(number) + ' points!',
                           font=('Arial Black', '26'), bg='red')

Or

gameOver=Label(root, text='Game over!\nYou scored {} points!'.format(number),
                           font=('Arial Black', '26'), bg='red')

answered Mar 26, 2015 at 17:26

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Luka1 Over a year ago

I tried first suggestion and it works great. Thanks for help.

MrAlexBailey Over a year ago

Just FYI, the issue here is not that you passed in a tuple, it's because the strings in that tuple had whitespace. Tkinter groups the individual strings in this case to indicate which one contains this space. If you pass in a tuple with no whitepsace, e.g. text=('few', 'words', 'no', 'spaces'), Tkinter will automatically populate the label with spaces between each element of the tuple.

Bryan Oakley Over a year ago

@Jkdc: it's a tiny bit more complicated than that. For example, if your data has a curly brace you'll also get unexpected output.

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