Problem getting a file pathname with tkFileDialog

Neil Cerutti horpner at yahoo.com
Thu Nov 9 08:37:40 EST 2006


On 2006-11-09, jmdeschamps at gmail.com <jmdeschamps at gmail.com> wrote:
> you could also use encode("iso-8859-1") to nterpret just the
> printed name such as: print myfilename.encode("iso-8859-1")
>
> and by the way if you wanted the file NAME you could have used
> openfilename() instead of openfile()    ;-)

The encoding of the filenames in the file system is available
from sys.getfilesystemencoding(). That might turn out to be
useful when interpreting them.

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Neil Cerutti
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for even longer. --David Acfield



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