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How would I access the string that is in the [1] position of a tuple at a given index of a listbox. What I'm trying to do is something like this:

a=Lb1.curselection()[1]
    a=int(a)
    print(Lb1[a])

Lb1 is obviously the listbox. This particular attempt claims 1 is out of range "although I know it has a string in that position". With [0] in the position when it gets to Lb1[a] it claims, can't convert type int to str implicitly, however I wouldn't want to do that, because, futilely, I'm trying to index it.

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or better yet how does this crazy ttk combobox thing work?

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That was extremely helpful. However I'm still having a hard time figuring out how to use the -autocomplete option and if I can make commands directly to the entry widget of the combobox separately.

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hmm, would I need to do multi-threading to have a loop continuously looking through what's in the entry field of the combobox? I really like the listbox that drops when you take a moment to think of what you're trying to type in tkinter, specifically I like how it goes directly to the closest match to what you've typed in. That's not the autocomplete is it?

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No, event loop takes care of that, above code hooked to key release event.Then if you need repeated activity you can use after method of a widget. See the second link (maybe 2to3 script can prepare it for Python3, by the way you can install both Python2 and Python3 without too much confusion).

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