tkinter absorb chars

[Jeff Epler]

On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 04:58:03PM -0600, phil wrote:
> Sorry for the repost, but moderator
> jeld the last one,

We saw both posts.

> In a Tkinter entry field (or Pmw entry)
> how could I eat charactres?

create a binding on the widget for the particular character you want to
treat specially.  If you want to suppress that character, return the
string "break" from the binding.  Example:

from Tkinter import *
t = Tkinter.Tk()
e = Tkinter.Entry(t); e.pack()
e.bind("x", lambda event: "break")

Jeff
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