How do I display tooltips in Tkinter?

python, tkinter, tooltip

Solution

The Pmw.Balloon class from the Pmw toolkit for Tkinter will draw tool tips.

Also take a look at this blog post, which adapts some code from IDLE used for displaying tool tips with Tkinter.

Problem

Tooltips are those little bits of text that popup when the mouse hovers over a widget for a certain duration of time. How can I add a tooltip message to my `tkinter` Python application?

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