from Tkinter import * root = Tk() scrollbar = Scrollbar(root, orient=HORIZONTAL) scrollbar.pack(side=BOTTOM, fill=X) mylist = Listbox(root, xscrollcommand=scrollbar.set) for line in range(100): msg = "number is " + str(line) mylist.insert(END, msg) mylist.pack(side=LEFT, fill=BOTH) scrollbar.config(command=mylist.xview) mainloop()