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 filenames to the previous filnames in the Text widget but I want to clear it first then add a fresh list of filenames But I am struggling to clear the Text widget s previous list of filenames Can someone please explain how to clear a Text widget Screenshoot and coding is giving below import os from Tkinter import def viewFile path os path expanduser python for f in os listdir path tex insert END f n if name main root Tk step root attributes -fullscreen True step LabelFrame root text FILE MANAGER font Arial 20 bold italic step grid row 0 columnspan 7 sticky W padx 100 pady 5 ipadx 130 ipady 25 Button step text File View font Arial 8 bold italic activebackground turquoise width 30 height 5 command viewFile grid row 1 column 2 Button step text Quit font Arial 8 bold italic activebackground turquoise width 20 height 5 command root quit grid row 1 column 5 tex Text master root scr Scrollbar root orient VERTICAL command tex yview scr grid row 2 column 2 rowspan 15 columnspan 1 sticky NS tex grid row 2 column 1 sticky W tex config yscrollcommand scr set font Arial 8 bold italic root mainloop

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

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

tex.delete('1.0', END)

you can also try this

~ Answered on 2015-01-15 16:01:53