newbie: "File Buffered" Text widget

[Josiah Carlson]

> I need a "File Buffered" Text widget (in Tkinter), that
> is a window over a buffered text file which would behave
> as if the entire file was loaded in memory (permitting
> the user to browse huge corpora text files).
> 
> Before writing one from scratch, I would like to be sure
> that there is no such thing available somewhere.

Creating your own read-only widget shouldn't be too difficult.  Creating
your own read-write widget would be a bit more difficult.  I would offer
to write a wxPython read-only one (it would take like 10 minutes), but
you're looking for Tkinter, so nevermind.

 - Josiah