Getting Cursor position in Tkinter entry widget

Question

I've an entry widget in my tkinter program. Let's say I typed about 10 words in it and went to another entry widget for typing. Now when I click back on my entry widget 1 (previous one), cursor goes to the character as per click position. How do I get cursor position index for that widget ? I referred to http://effbot.org/tkinterbook/entry.htm documentation but couldn't find a suitable method for getting cursor position.

Thanks.

Show us what you've tried so far. – Paul Rooney Jun 24 '15 at 10:14 — Paul Rooney, Jun 24 '15 at 10:14

score 12 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 28 '21 at 16:05

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You can use the Entry.index() method to get the index of the current INSERT position.

from Tkinter import *

def get_info():
    print e.index(INSERT)

root = Tk()
e = Entry(root)
e.pack()
Button(root, text="get info", command=get_info).pack()
root.mainloop()

edited Sep 28 '21 at 16:05

martineau

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answered Jun 24 '15 at 10:27

tobias_k

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Perfect. That's what I was looking for. I'm new to tkinter and hence couldn't understand while reading its description. – dhruvvyas90 Jun 24 '15 at 10:36

Getting Cursor position in Tkinter entry widget

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