How To Remove Icursor From Tkinter Canvas Text Item?

I'm following along with Effbot's Tkinter page here: http://effbot.org/zone/editing-canvas-text-items.htm The trouble I'm having is that after inserting the icursor, I can't seem t

Solution 1:

self.canvas.focus("")

To remove focus from the item, call this method with an empty string. Reference

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you can add the following

self.canvas.focus_set() # move focus to canvas windowself.canvas.focus("") # remove focus from the current item that has it

To

defset_focus(self, event):
    if self.canvas.type(CURRENT) != "text":
        #Herereturn

So when the user double-clicks on any part or item of the canvas that isn't created by canvas.create_text the focus is removed from the current "text" item, hence stopping the edit.

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Plus you can add

self.canvas.delete("highlight")

to remove the white rectangle around the text, when focus is removed.