trying to print contents of text box after user clicks search button yet nothing printing tkinter

Question

User inputs text into a text box clicks search and then the text is printed. Right now being printed in the shell is fine as I am still developing this. However, with everything I have read in the docs, what I am doing should work. So I am assuming its something small that I dont see. Please let me know what I am doing wrong.

def save():
   key = entryName.get()
   print(key)

nameField = StringVar()
entryName = Entry(root,textvariable= nameField)
entryName.grid(row=3,column=2)

searchButton = Button(root, text = "Search", command = save())
searchButton.grid(row = 19,column = 2)

You use a textvariable= so it would be nameField.get() – Aug 05 '15 at 20:04 — , Aug 05 '15 at 20:04

Anand S Kumar · Accepted Answer · 2015-08-05T20:08:42.260

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The issue seems to be in the line -

searchButton = Button(root, text = "Search", command = save())

You should set the function directly as the value for command argument, not call it and set its return value as argument (which is None , since the function does not return anything) . Example -

searchButton = Button(root, text = "Search", command = save)

edited Aug 05 '15 at 20:08

answered Aug 05 '15 at 20:01

Anand S Kumar

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yep thats the answer thank you. Its an obvious error that I should of seen just I had been trying so many different things i got tunnel vision, thank you – Christopher Jakob Aug 05 '15 at 20:07
of course man I was just waiting for the timer to expire so I could – Christopher Jakob Aug 05 '15 at 20:38

trying to print contents of text box after user clicks search button yet nothing printing tkinter

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