Problem getting a file pathname with tkFileDialog

Tim Daneliuk tundra at tundraware.com
Wed Nov 8 14:48:00 EST 2006


cdroulers at hotmail.com wrote:
> Hello,
> I am working on a school project that requires me to get the path of a
> filename for future treatment.
> I've tried getting a file with tkFileDialog.askopenfile.
> 
> 
> ********************************************
> import tkFileDialog
> file = tkFileDialog.askopenfile()
> print file
> ********************************************
> 
> 
> It prints the opened files stuff, but I just can not find how to get
> that path as a string. I've searched around google and the present
> group, and found no documentation on the file class used with
> tkFileDialog. Does someone have a solution for that?
> 
> Thank you
> 
> Christian
> 

How about:

print file.name



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