Thanks to an earlier post by Michael Lange on 18 Dec 2011 at 17:30 the issue is resolved by the following statement: print "x1= ",(widget.coords(self.ovalt)[0]) -- View this message in context: http://python.6.n6.nabble.com/itemcget-question-tp5002250p5002257.html Sent from the Python - tkinter-discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com.