Save text from Tk widget?

[Steve]

Steve Holden wrote:
> 
> Steve wrote:
> >
> > I have a function inside my main class to open a file in a ScrolledText
> > widget.
> > The default Windoze key bindings work for simple text editing, so I
> > added
> > a save function, but I declare a global variable to get the widget
> > contents to the save function.  There must be a better way?
> >
> 
> Make zd an instance variable instead: this even allows you to have
> multiple instances which won't interfere with each other.
> 
>         def viewDict(self):
>                 new = Toplevel()
>                 self.zd = ScrolledText(new, height = 30, width = 70)
>                 self.zd.pack(fill=BOTH, expand=YES)
>                 self.zd.insert('0.0', open('c:/mytools/mydict.py', 'r').read())
>                 Button(new, text='Save', fg='red',
> command=self.saveDict).pack()
> 
>         def saveDict(self):
>                 contents = self.zd.get(1.0, END)
>                 output = open('c:/mytools/mydict.py', 'w')
>                 output.write(contents)
>                 output.close()
>

Thanks Steve!  I should have known to allow my self to introduce my
self!

-Steve-