Unicode Characters & Special Characters – Python Tkinter GUI Tutorial #51

How to use Unicode Characters and Special Characters with tKinter and Python. Using special characters in tKinter is super easy.

You just slap a u in front of the thing, then escape out with a backslash, and then type in the unicode characters, like so:

my_label = Label(root, text='41' + u'\u00A2').pack()

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John Elder

John is the CEO of Codemy.com where he teaches over 100,000 students how to code! He founded one of the Internet's earliest advertising networks and sold it to a publicly company at the height of...