file access dialog

[Fredrik Lundh]

Wouter van Ooijen wrote:

>I have a tool in Python to which I want to add a small GUI. The tools
> currently runs everywhere PySerial is supported. I need a file-access
> dialog. What is the preffered way to to this? Is there a
> platform-independent file-access dialog available, or should I use the
> windows native version when running on windows (and how do I do that)?

depends on what GUI toolkit you prefer to use.

for Tkinter (which is available on most modern platforms), see "File
Dialogs" on this page:

    http://www.pythonware.com/library/tkinter/introduction/x1164-data-entry.htm

the following thread may also be helpful:

    http://tinyurl.com/b2zxb

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