CODEWITHSUNDEEP
pythontkinterfiledialog
manateejoe
manateejoe

Reputation: 354

Specify File path in tkinter File dialog

I have a file dialog to open a file, however, the file that I want to open is in a different directory than the program I wrote. The file dialog opens to the directory where I am. Is there a way to specify where the filedialog opens?

Here is the relevant code:

root = Tk()
root.fileName = tkFileDialog.askopenfilename()
f = open(root.fileName, 'r')

I tried adding the path that I want into the "askopenfilename" call, but that didn't work:

root.fileName = tkFileDialog.askopenfilename('/C:')

Upvotes: 7

Views: 15063

Answers (1)

maccartm
maccartm

Reputation: 2115

What you want is:

root.fileName = tkFileDialog.askopenfilename(initialdir = "C:/<whatever>")

This argument will allow you to specify the directory to which the window will open up.

Upvotes: 17

Related Questions