from Tkinter import * root = Tk() scrollbar = Scrollbar(root) scrollbar.pack(side=RIGHT, fill=Y) mylist = Listbox(root, yscrollcommand=scrollbar.set) for line in range(100): mylist.insert(END, "This is line number " + str(line)) mylist.pack(side=LEFT, fill=BOTH) scrollbar.config(command=mylist.yview) mainloop()