Get button widget text

Question

I want to get text using a button to compare it using an if statement.

Say I have this button:

my_button = Button(self, text = 'hi') my_button.grid(row = 0, column = 0, sticky = W) 

And I want to do something like this:

 my_text = my_button.text 

So that the following if-statement evaluates to True:

 if my_text == 'hi': # do something 

How can I do this in a simple way?

Answer 1

You can simply do:

 my_text = my_button['text'] 

Tkinter allows you to access any widget option this way ( height , width , text , etc.)

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If you need this as a method call, you can use .cget :

 my_text = my_button.cget('text') 

Please note that this method is available for all standard Tkinter widgets.