<p>I want to create some text in a canvas:</p>
<pre><code>myText = self.canvas.create_text(5, 5, anchor=NW, text=&quot;TEST&quot;)
</code></pre>
<p>Now how do I find the width and height of <code>myText</code>?</p>

```
```
bounds = self.canvas.bbox(myText)  # returns a tuple like (x1, y1, x2, y2)
width = bounds[2] - bounds[0]
height = bounds[3] - bounds[1]
```
```
See the
TkInter reference
.