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Ghoul Fool
Ghoul Fool

Reputation: 6949

Drag & drop interface for files?

I have a simple script that displays filenames

import os
path = "C:\\temp\\somefiles\\"
theFiles = os.listdir(path)
for f in theFiles:
  print(f)

bak.txt gwen.bat spoon_01.jpg spoon_02.jpg

So far so good. Instead of hardcoding the pathname, I want to be able to drag & drop the files I want to process onto a minimalist desktop widget. What are my options with Python?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3304

Answers (1)

JeffUK
JeffUK

Reputation: 4231

As per the comments, in windows you can drag a file onto a .py file and it will execute with the files in the sys.argv variable

import sys
theFiles = sys.argv[1:] #argv[0] is the script itself.
for f in theFiles:
  print(f)
input("Press Any Key to Continue")

Putting your .py file in the windows 'SendTo' directory allows you to do this from the right-click menu

Upvotes: 2

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