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Python Tkinter: How to create a Combobox in Tkinter
Jun 20, 2025
Tkinter is Python's most popular Graphical User Interface (GUI) library. This topic explains the proper use of this library and its resources. Python Tkinter: How to create a Combobox in Tkinter Support the Channel šš: Buy me a coffee ā : https://buymeacoffee.com/usandopy_ ā”ļø Connect with me on: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pybeginners/ Twitter: https://x.com/joaofuti_ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joao-futi-muanda-16b980175/ Website: https://www.usandopy.com/en Thread: https://www.threads.net/@pybeginners
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hello guys welcome back to the channel
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my name is R so today we are going to
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learn how we can create a combo box in
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TI okay so a combo box are those options
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box that we used to see in a lot of
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application even web application okay so
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we are going to learn how we can create
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those box the same box okay in Python t
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Okay so for that we can do something
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like this so let me come to our test
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editor but before that let's say what we
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are going to do okay so in this video we
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are going to do we are going to learn
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how to create a combo box how to get how
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to insert items inside of the combo box
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okay and how to get the values from the
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combo box okay and we are going to have
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Al a lot of examples so let's go into
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the test editor so for that let's do
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something like this okay so we are going
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to learn how to create a combo box in
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Python t Okay so for that let's do
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something like this so these are the
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information from the previous video okay
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so in order for us to get the info from
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the combo box okay we can do something
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like this okay uh I'm going to keep this
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botton here we might need it but this
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guy I'm going to delete this info even
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here okay I can for now I can just
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delete these guys okay I'm just going to
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delete those guys so that we can have
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more space to work and to play around so
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for that let's do something like this
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okay hi am here okay I have one label
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and I have one entry so I don't need
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this entry oh this is the label sorry
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okay I don't need this label bye-bye and
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if I save this and if I run this boom I
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have only this bottom and this guy okay
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perfect it gives error because we don't
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have this entry anymore so I can just
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remove this guy and write it pass so
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that it can ignore okay if I click boom
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boom it will pass it will ignore this
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perfect though so in order to create the
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combo box in Python we can do something
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like this okay so first let's create one
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variable called combo okay we can give
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any name okay I'm just going give in
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combo because it's easy name that can
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pop up pop up on my head so for that we
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can call combo box okay combo this way
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combo box okay combo Box open and close
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so if I save this and if I run boom I'm
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going to get error why because in if you
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want to use combo box okay we have to
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call it from t. ttk Okay ttk so for that
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we have to do something like like like
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that okay we have to come here down we
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have to do something like that from
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theer okay from the dot
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TK okay we can say
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import space and axter all this way okay
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now if I save this and if I run boom I'm
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still getting error because he's saying
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that ttk doesn't have this B&J so for
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that to avoid this okay he saying that
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this guy doesn't exist this guy okay so
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to avoid this is very easy okay I can
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just do like this you come out okay boom
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you stay in the top and you stay down
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okay boom I save and if I run boom
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everything is working or I can just for
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if I remove this guy and if I save like
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this and keep like this I'm I'm still
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getting error okay so that's why I put
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that this way okay just change the
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orders keep this way and safe everything
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will work okay because combo box is in
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inside of this one okay of this class so
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now since we have a combo box okay let's
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place it inside of our window let's say
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window save okay and if I run this
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nothing's going to happen Okay so now
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after creating a combo box we need to
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place it inside of the window okay so to
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place inside of the window is the same
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thing that we have been doing but let me
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give a little space here let me say
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combo Dot
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okay so I'm just going to use this guy
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okay you come
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here and I will place it I place it here
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okay so this is in Grid 0 one this guy
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come in Grid one and this go down into
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two okay I save this
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and okay now I want this guy on zero
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this guy on zero okay I save this combo
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box if I save and if I run boom now we
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have a combo box here okay but the combo
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box is empty okay so we can give some
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values here in our combo box in order to
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give a value in the combo box we have to
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do something like that okay here after
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we place our combo box inside of window
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below we can call combo okay we can just
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open something like this okay inside of
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a single quote we can call values this
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way okay values
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save give a little space and say equal
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so now here we must give a dle or a list
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so that those ones will be show inside
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of our combo box okay so for example we
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can say something like that okay uh if I
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first I'm going to give a list okay so a
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list of 1 2 3 4 five okay and save and
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if I run
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this if I come here we can see now we
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have our values okay so apart of uh
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apart of those okay we can give also
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this one okay we can give Tuple inste of
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lists I save if I run this uh we can say
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we we have here our values okay so the
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combo box it can be a mixer Val it can
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be integer it can be float it can be
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strings also for examp if I say comma
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then I can say for example Jo which is
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my name save and if I run this we can do
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see like this is here down okay just
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this and it will be working so this is
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how we can create a combo box in Python
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ticking there okay so but that this is
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there is a thing which is very very very
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important okay that is how to get the
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value from the combo box and make use of
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it but aart of that okay when we create
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a combo box we can also Define which
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value we want it to show first for if I
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save this and if I run for examp here we
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can see this guy is z is not shown
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anything okay but we can set a for a
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default value for I can set for
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something like that okay combo dot
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current okay current
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H equal for I can say here it works as a
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position okay for I want the this number
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one to be to be shown as the first value
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for if I put it one okay you come here
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no if I put it one save if I run this is
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going to show me two why because see
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this one it works as index okay this one
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this thing that we are passing is index
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of the tle okay of the value in the T So
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since we gave one it's showing two
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because it start from 0 1 2 three okay
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but if you want one we have to give it
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zero here Zero Save then if we save so
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that we can see it's showing now one as
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the default value okay so if we open
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this 1 2 3 4 and done for if you want to
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dra okay which is the last one so the
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last one is let me see 0 1 2 3 4 5 it's
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five okay if I give five save and if I
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run it show okay let me see if I if is
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uh negative number Works see if I put
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minus oneus one is supposed to give me
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Al safe if I run boom is wrong so that
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means a negative number doesn't work
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only positive numbers it will work okay
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but since this is a to let me change let
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me check for a list sorry if I delete
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this guy and instead of to if I pass the
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list and if I keep there minus one save
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and if I run boom even minus one doesn't
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work so it means only positive numbers
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can be assigned there okay save and I
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one now we have two8 as default so let's
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put one which is zero okay Zero Save and
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if I run boom we have this guys in order
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to get the values from the combo box we
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have to do something like that okay
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inside here
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our uh this function hello we can do
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something like that okay H from there
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here let me say let me create one uh
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variable called info this info will be
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equal we have to call the N of the the
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name of the combo box which is combo dot
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we we use get the function get Al to get
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the values from the combo box then do
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this okay so we can print the value okay
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print what we are going to print we are
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going to print info okay which is the
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information so if I save this and if I
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run okay let me see uh if I click any
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value let's for if I click here boom it
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print one okay it's getting the value
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from the combo box if I change to four
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boom it's printing four and so on okay
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so this is how we can get the values
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from the combo box in Python T So after
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get we get those values we can do
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whatever we want we can manipulate those
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values as we
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wish so guys if you like this video
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like to the video and see you in the
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next video okay bye-bye