from tkinter import * root = Tk() scrollbar = Scrollbar(root) scrollbar.pack( side = RIGHT, fill = Y ) mylist = Listbox(root, yscrollcommand = scrollbar.set ) for line in range(100): mylist.insert(END, 'This is line number' + str(line)) mylist.pack( side = LEFT, fill = BOTH ) scrollbar.config( command = mylist.yview ) mainloop()