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"event.widget" and "event.type" return numerical values. How can I relate these numerical values to the name of the widget?

Aug 16th, 2000 03:29
unknown unknown, Matthew Dixon Cowles

event.widget isn't really a numerical value, it just prints that
way. Fredrik Lundh's excellent Introduction to Tkinter explains that
in the event attributes table at (wrapped for line length):
http://www.pythonware.com/library/tkinter/
  introduction/events-and-bindings.htm
So you can do things like:
if event.widget.widgetName=="text":
or:
if event.widget==self.textArea:
or:
event.widget.selection_clear()
As for event.type, I'm sure that you could find a list or figure them
out for yourself, but on the same page Fredrik says:
For portability reasons, you should stick to char, height, width, x,
y, x_root, y_root, and widget unless you know exactly what you're
doing...
And since I never know exactly what I'm doing <0.1 wink>, I follow his
advice carefully. But really, I've never needed the event type in
practice since I've always known what the event was since I specified
it when I bound the callback to that event.