[Tutor] tkinter.filedialog?

[Alan Gauld]

On 25/06/14 02:37, Jim Byrnes wrote:

>  >>> import tkinter.filedialog
>  >>> filetypes = [("Python files", "*.py"), ("Text files", "*.txt")]
>  >>> fileName = tkinter.filedialog.askopenfilename(filetypes = filetypes)
>
> It pops up a file dialog but again only .py files are shown.
>
> Why is it that both .py and .txt files are not shown?

filetypes does not control which files are shown it controls which 
filters are shown. There is a drop down list on the dialog that you can 
select the filter that is applied. You should find there are two in your 
case: Python files and text files.

If you select the text files filter it will show only text files...


hth
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