from Tkinter import * root = Tk() def hello(event): print 'Got tag event' text = Text() text.config(font=('courier', 15, 'normal')) text.config(width=20, height=12) text.pack(expand=YES, fill=BOTH) text.insert(END, 'Lin 1\n\nLin 2\n\nLin 3.\n\n') root.mainloop()