from Tkinter import * def onCanvasClick(event): print 'Got canvas click', event.x, event.y, event.widget root = Tk() canv = Canvas(root, width=100, height=100) obj1 = canv.create_text(50, 30, text='one') obj2 = canv.create_text(50, 70, text='two') canv.bind('<Double-1>', onCanvasClick) canv.pack() root.mainloop()