How do you save a input on tkinter as a variable

Question

I'm trying to get a tkinter window to ask for a team name then to save it as a variable, this is what I have so far...

import tkinter

def new_game_func():
    def save():
        print('Saving team')
        print(E1)
    team=0
    while team<=4:
        team=team+1
        newgamew=tkinter.Tk()
        label1 = tkinter.Label(newgamew, text="Team name:")
        E1 = tkinter.Entry(newgamew, bd =5)
        submit = tkinter.Button(newgamew, text ="Submit", command=save)
        label1.pack()
        E1.pack()
        submit.pack()
        newgamew.mainloop()
    team()

new_game_func()

All it displays is:

Saving team
.20237872

How would I save it as plain text and not a bunch of numbers?!?!

Answer 1

E1 is the reference for your Entry. If you wish to access the text within the Entry, you can use E1.get().