[Tutor] Text Box

[Rick Pasotto]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 06:38:34AM -0500, Corey Woodworth wrote:
> What is the easist well to tell if a text widget is empty? I tried all
> different solutions including:
> 
> if textwidget.get(1.0,END) == "":
> 
> if textwidget.get(1.0) == textwidget.get(END):
> 
> if textwidget.compare(1.0,END):
> 
> I'm sure some of those weren't even valid. :) What am I doin' wrong?

I believe a Text widget is never really empty. It always contains at
least a newline. Check for a length of 1.

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