Getting the total number of lines in a Tkinter Text widget?

Question

I have a Tkinter Text widget, and I\'d like to know how many lines it contains.

I know of the text.cget(\"height\") method, however that o

Answer 1

Use the index method to find the value of 'end' which is the position just after the last character in the buffer.

>>> text_widget.index('end')  # returns line.column 
'3.0'

>>> int(text_widget.index('end').split('.')[0]) - 1  # returns line count
2 

Update per Bryan Oakley's comment:

>>> int(text_widget.index('end-1c').split('.')[0])  # returns line count
2