Save File Dialog in Tkinter

Question

I am implementing a GUI based text editor in python.
I have displayed the text area but when I try to use the asksaveasfile method in Tkinter, it shows that the file has

Answer 1

The function name is asksaveasfilename. And it should be qualified as tkFileDialog.asksaveasfilename. And it does not accept mode argument.

Maybe you want to use tkFileDialog.asksaveasfile.

def file_save():
    f = tkFileDialog.asksaveasfile(mode='w', defaultextension=".txt")
    if f is None: # asksaveasfile return `None` if dialog closed with "cancel".
        return
    text2save = str(text.get(1.0, END)) # starts from `1.0`, not `0.0`
    f.write(text2save)
    f.close() # `()` was missing.