Tkinter check if entry box is empty

Question

How to check if a Tkinter entry box is empty? In other words if it doesn't have a value assigned to it.

Accepted Answer

You can get the value and then check its length:

```
if len(the_entry_widget.get()) == 0:
    do_something()
```

You can get the index of the last character in the widget. If the last index is 0 (zero), it is empty:

```
if the_entry_widget.index("end") == 0:
    do_something()
```

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