Why Am I Getting Ugly Curly Brackets Around My Text In The Label Widget? - Tkinter

I'm getting curly brackets around the text in my label widget. The output is {Total tries: 0} instead of Total tries: 0. Here is a short version of my code: class Cell: def che

Solution 1:

self.label["text"] = "Total tries: 0",

There is a comma at the end of the line. The comma changes the value being assigned to self.label["text"] from a string to a tuple. Remove the comma, and the curly braces get removed.

Solution 2:

I don't know why that happens; however, when I've used Tkinter, I've always done text updates either with a StringVar or using the config method. Here's a page with some examples.

Example using a StringVar:

# in class Memorydefcreate_widgets(self):
  self.labelText = StringVar()
  self.label = Label(self, textvariable = self.labelText)
  ... rest of method ...

defupdate_tries(self):
  self.labelText.set("Total tries: " + str(self.tries))

Solution 3:

I had a similar problem but none of these solutions worked for me. For anyone in the future that struggles with this, I get an error on text that contains a space in such as "Health and Fitness" which would be printed as {Health and Fitness}.

For me, the solution was to not instantiate the labels such as:

score = 25
tk.Label(container, text=("Health and Fitness",score)).pack()

But rather, like this:

toPrint = "Health and Fitness" + str(score)
tk.Label(container, text=toPrint).pack()