[Tkinter-discuss] Taking a Text() widget and saving it to a .txt file

[Cameron Laird]

On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 04:16:23PM -0700, Alexnb wrote:
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> I don't really know if this is possible, but it seems like there should be an
> easy way. If I have a text widget:
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> text = Text(parent)
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> and I want to take what is in there and save it has a text file. How would I
> go about doing this. Also, if it matters, I would like to keep it in the
> same format as the textbox. 
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You'll want to start by reading <URL: 
http://www.pythonware.com/library/tkinter/introduction/x8369-methods.htm >,
and especially about get():

    text.get("1.0", "end")