pattern and index are obligatory arguments invalid text index check if we are getting the indices as strings you are likely to get tclobj under tk 8 5 if tkinter doesn t convert it pattern and index are obligatory arguments invalid text index check if we are getting the indices as strings you are likely to get tcl_obj under tk 8 5 if tkinter doesn t convert it indices by default
import unittest
import tkinter
from test.support import requires
from test.test_tkinter.support import AbstractTkTest

requires('gui')

class TextTest(AbstractTkTest, unittest.TestCase):

    def setUp(self):
        super().setUp()
        self.text = tkinter.Text(self.root)
        self.text.pack()

    def test_debug(self):
        text = self.text
        olddebug = text.debug()
        try:
            text.debug(0)
            self.assertEqual(text.debug(), 0)
            text.debug(1)
            self.assertEqual(text.debug(), 1)
        finally:
            text.debug(olddebug)
            self.assertEqual(text.debug(), olddebug)

    def test_search(self):
        text = self.text

        
        self.assertRaises(tkinter.TclError, text.search, None, '1.0')
        self.assertRaises(tkinter.TclError, text.search, 'a', None)
        self.assertRaises(tkinter.TclError, text.search, None, None)

        
        self.assertRaises(tkinter.TclError, text.search, '', 0)

        
        
        text.insert('1.0', 'hi-test')
        self.assertEqual(text.search('-test', '1.0', 'end'), '1.2')
        self.assertEqual(text.search('test', '1.0', 'end'), '1.3')

    def test_count(self):
        text = self.text
        text.insert('1.0',
            'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,\n'
            'consectetur adipiscing elit,\n'
            'sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt\n'
            'ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.')

        options = ('chars', 'indices', 'lines',
                   'displaychars', 'displayindices', 'displaylines',
                   'xpixels', 'ypixels')
        self.assertEqual(len(text.count('1.0', 'end', *options)), 8)
        self.assertEqual(text.count('1.0', 'end', 'chars', 'lines'), (124, 4))
        self.assertEqual(text.count('1.3', '4.5', 'chars', 'lines'), (92, 3))
        self.assertEqual(text.count('4.5', '1.3', 'chars', 'lines'), (-92, -3))
        self.assertEqual(text.count('1.3', '1.3', 'chars', 'lines'), (0, 0))
        self.assertEqual(text.count('1.0', 'end', 'lines'), 4)
        self.assertEqual(text.count('end', '1.0', 'lines'), -4)
        self.assertEqual(text.count('1.3', '1.5', 'lines'), 0)
        self.assertEqual(text.count('1.3', '1.3', 'lines'), 0)
        self.assertEqual(text.count('1.0', 'end'), 124)  
        self.assertEqual(text.count('1.0', 'end', 'indices'), 124)
        self.assertRaises(tkinter.TclError, text.count, '1.0', 'end', 'spam')
        self.assertRaises(tkinter.TclError, text.count, '1.0', 'end', '-lines')

        self.assertIsInstance(text.count('1.3', '1.5', 'ypixels'), int)
        self.assertIsInstance(text.count('1.3', '1.5', 'update', 'ypixels'), int)
        self.assertEqual(text.count('1.3', '1.3', 'update', 'ypixels'), 0)
        self.assertEqual(text.count('1.3', '1.5', 'update', 'indices'), 2)
        self.assertEqual(text.count('1.3', '1.3', 'update', 'indices'), 0)
        self.assertEqual(text.count('1.3', '1.5', 'update'), 2)
        self.assertEqual(text.count('1.3', '1.3', 'update'), 0)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    unittest.main()