Select only the texts not the whole line in tkinter

Question

I'm trying to select only the entered words in a ScrolledText but the whole line is getting selected. Select all code:

# I'm using ScrolledText for the input field
self.textBox = ScrolledText.ScrolledText(master=self.topFrame, wrap="word", bg='beige', padx=20, pady=5)

# Binding Shortcuts
rootone.bind("<Control-a>", self.selectAllOperation)

# Function Defination
def selectAllOperation(self, event=None):
        self.textBox.tag_add('sel', '1.0', 'end')

This is whats happening,

This is what I want to do,

Note that in the second picture only end of the words are selected but in the first picture the whole line is getting selected. Is it possible in tkinter to implement this feature?

I'm using python 3.6

Answer 1

Question: Select only the texts not the whole line

Instead of selecting the whole text from 1.0 to end, you have to do it line by line from y.0 to y.end.

• The Tkinter Text Widget
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1. Get the number of lines:

       lines = len(self.text.get("1.0", "end").split('\n'))
   

2. Loop all lines, select from y.0 to y.end:

       for idx in range(1, lines):
           self.text.tag_add('sel', '{}.0'.format(idx), '{}.end'.format(idx))
   

Tested with Python: 3.5