[Tutor] Python gui for file input

[Alan Gauld]

"Mike Ellis" <maellis002 at yahoo.com> wrote in

> I am looking to create a simple gui interface to a small script.
> The script requires the user to input a directory.

You don't need to write an interface just use the standard
one. Of course if you want to display the result/output in
a GUI then you neeed to do some work. But if you are
happy with a console interace, or a silent application,
then its just a case of using the common dialogs:

>>> import Tkinter as tk>>> import tkFileDialog as fd>>> t = 
>>> tk.Tk()>>> t.withdraw()  # hides the Tk root window''>>> d = 
>>> fd.askdirectory() # display the dir dialog>>> print 
>>> dD:/Development>>> dir(fd)['Dialog', 'Directory', 'Open', 
>>> 'SaveAs', '_Dialog', '__builtins__', '__doc__','__file__', 
>>> '__name__', 'askdirectory', 'askopenfile', 'askopenfilename', 
>>> 'askoenfilenames', 'askopenfiles', 'asksaveasfile', 
>>> 'asksaveasfilename']>>>As you see there are a number of other 
>>> dialogs too. Try googling on their names to find example usage. I 
>>> don't know why this isn't documented in the standard library 
>>> docs!HTH,

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