from Tkinter import Tk, Label root = Tk() root.title('ROOT') # set text at runtime label_name = Label(root) label_name.__setitem__('text', 'abc') label_name.pack() # "text" can not be omitted label_phonetic = Label(root, text='phonetic:') label_phonetic.pack() label_meaning = Label(root, text='meaning:') label_meaning.pack() label_example = Label(root, text='example:') label_example.pack() root.mainloop()