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in thread Extracting information from a Text widget

... I was thinking of using the line.char references was so that I could insert the new circles in the correct place in the text ...

Rather than fighting to translate character offsets to line/char offsets in order to insert the additions, why not query the entire text, perform substitutions on that and then replace (delete/insert) the entire text?

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