Action Key: down arrow key
from Tkinter import * def onArrowKey(event): print 'Got arrow key press' tkroot = Tk() labelfont = ('courier', 20, 'bold') widget = Label(tkroot, text='Hello bind world') widget.config(bg='red', font=labelfont) widget.config(height=5, width=20) widget.pack(expand=YES, fill=BOTH) widget.bind('<Down>', onArrowKey) widget.focus() tkroot.title('Click Me') tkroot.mainloop()