[IPython-dev] Open-file dialog in the notebook for data files

[Adam Hughes]

You can do a widget box and next to it a button, like "Load file" and then
link the button click even to the name of the text in the file.   I can
give you some help later this week if you have trouble finding how to do
that (we are about to pack up computers for a lab move)

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Antonino Ingargiola <tritemio at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Yes, is there a widget I can use for that? If yes I must have missed it...
>
> Antonio
>
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Adam Hughes <hughesadam87 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Would you be able to just use an IPython widget to get the file name?
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 2:37 PM, Antonino Ingargiola <tritemio at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear ipython developers,
>>>
>>> I occasionally have the need to get a data file name via a GUI dialog
>>> when using the notebook.
>>>
>>> Opening a QT dialog from the notebook involves initializing the QT gui.
>>> At the same time I always use inline plots so I also need to enable the
>>> inline plot backed. This can be done with
>>>
>>>     %gui qt
>>>     %matplotlib inline
>>>
>>> These commands work when executed manually on different cells.
>>> However, the previous commands will freeze the ipython notebook if they
>>> are in the same cell or if executing the notebook with Run-All (open issue
>>> #5798 <https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/5798>). The problem is
>>> multi-platform and occurs both with PySide and PyQT.
>>>
>>> Is there any workaround for this? It really bothers me to lose the
>>> ability to Run-All when I enable the QT gui.
>>>
>>> Alternatively would be possible to use a javascript dialog to select a
>>> file on the filesystem? If yes an example would be nice.
>>>
>>> PS: I'm using ipython 2.x
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Antonio
>>>
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