[Tutor] Available filetypes for AskSaveasfilenam in Tkinter?

[John Fouhy]

2009/1/23 Wayne Watson <sierra_mtnview at sbcglobal.net>:
> What I'm getting at it is when I see something in a program as:
>             path = asksaveasfilename(defaultextension=".jpg",
>                                      title="Save as JPEG",
>                                      initialfile=default_path,
>                                      filetypes=IMAGE_FILE_TYPES)
>
> I'm guessing when the program executes this, it's really saves a file in the
> jpg format.
[...]

All asksaveasfilename does is give you a filename/path.  You then have
to open the file and write the data to it.  It's up to you to make
sure the data is in the right format..

-- 
John.