user1361953
Reputation: 11
How to use a file dialog in tkinter to get a filename?
I am writing a small program to enter a file name in an entry dialog in python tkinter. The code currently using a entry dialog which lets me put in a file name manually. However, I wish to use the file browser kind of feature in place of manual typing in of the file. To add on, I wish to not open the file in the dialog itself but rather store the entire path to a variable. Is it possible to do so?
Upvotes: 1
Views: 513
Answers (1)
James Waldby - jwpat7
Reputation: 8711
Use tkFileDialog.askopenfilename(), as described in a tkinter.unpythonic.net webpage.
askopenfilename(**options) gets a name or names and has options defaultextension, filetypes, initialdir, initialfile, multiple, message, parent, title
Upvotes: 4
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