How to print the Entry() of a function in another functiion?

[Marcozeus]

Hi, I'm trying to print the string of: Entry "motTexte" who is located in getWord(), in draw(). But everytime in write something in the entry, it prints an empty line in the Python IDLE.

The code:

from time import *
from math import *
from re import *
from tkinter import *



def getWord():
    rootMot = Toplevel(root)
    motTexte = Entry(rootMot)
    motTexte.get()
    motTexte.pack()
    getWord.motFinal = motTexte.get()
    boutonMot = Button(rootMot, text="Submit", width=10,
                       command=lambda: draw(rootMot))
    boutonMot.pack()
   

def draw(widget):
    print(getWord.motFinal)
    widget.destroy()
    gameDraw = Canvas(root, width=200, height=100)
    gameDraw.pack()
    


#Create the menu
root = Tk()
menu = Menu(root)
root.config(menu=menu)


gameOptions = Menu(menu)
menu.add_cascade(label="Game", menu=gameOptions)
gameOptions.add_command(label="New Game", command=getWord)
gameOptions.add_command(label="Options...", command=getWord)
gameOptions.add_separator()
gameOptions.add_command(label="Exit", command=getWord)


helpOptions = Menu(menu)
menu.add_cascade(label="Help", menu=helpOptions)
helpOptions.add_command(label="How to play...", command=getWord)
helpOptions.add_command(label="About...", command=getWord)
mainloop()

Thank you

PS: I'm french so sorry if you don't understand some variables :)

[bvdet]

At the time of assignment to getWord.motFina l, there is no text in motTexte. You can add motTexte as an argument in the button callback and call get() in draw().

def getWord():
    rootMot = Toplevel(root)
    motTexte = Entry(rootMot)
    motTexte.get()
    motTexte.pack()
    boutonMot = Button(rootMot, text="Submit", width=10,
                       command=lambda: draw(rootMot, motTexte))
    boutonMot.pack()

def draw(top, widget):
    print(widget.get())
    top.destroy()
    gameDraw = Canvas(root, width=200, height=100)
    gameDraw.pack()

You should consider encompassing your dialogs in a class object where individual elements are created as instance objects and can be accessed by attribute reference (as in self.motTexte).