How to clear/delete the contents of a Tkinter Text widget?

Question

I am writing a Python program in TKinter on Ubuntu to import and print the name of files from particular folder in Text widget. It is just adding f

Answer 1

I think this:

text.delete("1.0", tkinter.END)

Or if you did from tkinter import *

text.delete("1.0", END)

That should work

Answer 2

I checked on my side by just adding '1.0' and it start working

tex.delete('1.0', END)

you can also try this

Answer 3

According to the tkinterbook the code to clear a text element should be:

text.delete(1.0,END)

This worked for me. source

It's different from clearing an entry element, which is done like this:

entry.delete(0,END) #note the 0 instead of 1.0

Answer 4

from Tkinter import *

app = Tk()

# Text Widget + Font Size
txt = Text(app, font=('Verdana',8))
txt.pack()

# Delete Button
btn = Button(app, text='Delete', command=lambda: txt.delete(1.0,END))
btn.pack()

app.mainloop()

Here's an example of txt.delete(1.0,END) as mentioned.

The use of lambda makes us able to delete the contents without defining an actual function.

Answer 5

A lot of answers ask you to use END, but if that's not working for you, try:

text.delete("1.0", "end-1c")

Answer 6

for me "1.0" didn't work, but '0' worked. This is Python 2.7.12, just FYI. Also depends on how you import the module. Here's how:

import Tkinter as tk
window = tk.Tk()
textBox = tk.Entry(window)
textBox.pack()

And the following code is called when you need to clear it. In my case there was a button Save that saves the data from the Entry text box and after the button is clicked, the text box is cleared

textBox.delete('0',tk.END)