[Tutor] blocking user access

[Kent Johnson]

Diana Hawksworth wrote:
> Hi!  I need help on blocking user access to a message box - for example, 
> the program could provide an answer to an input.  At the moment, the 
> user has access to - and can type into - that "answer" space. How do I 
> prevent that from happening please?

It sounds like you want to disable writing into a text field in your gui? Are you using Tkinter or 
another GUI toolkit?

In Tkinter you could use a Label widget, which is never editable, or you could use a Text widget 
with its 'state' option set to 'DISABLED' like this:
t=Text(state=DISABLED)

Kent