[Python] how to use grid with textbox? my textsize seems to impact my grid but I don't want it...

I want my screen to have a small notepad in the bottom left.
My textsize within this textbox seems to impact my grid, but I don't want it to.

My understanding is that using uniform ="a" fixes such issues, but it seems to persist only in the case of the textbox widget from what I can tell.

I have some code running in the back while developing that helps me to see the grid.
A picture of the result below:



My grid and code as below:

# define a grid

number_tuple_30 = (0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19, 20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30)
number_tuple_45 = (0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19, 20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45)

wd.columnconfigure(number_tuple_30,weight = 10, uniform = "a")
wd.rowconfigure(number_tuple_45,weight = 10, uniform = "a")
wd.columnconfigure(1,weight = 13, uniform = "a")

# textbox

text = tk.Text(font=("Courier",15), bg=colour, borderwidth=1, relief="solid")
text.grid(column=0, row=39, sticky="nesw", columnspan=9, rowspan=7)

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