On Nov 13, 2:47 pm, "Matt Mitchell" <[email protected]> wrote:
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Matt Mitchell
> Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 9:33 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: tkFileDialog question
>
> Hi,
>
> This is my first attempt to write a script with any kind of gui. All I
> need the script to do is ask the user for a directory and then do stuff
> with the files in that directory. I used tkFileDialog.askdirectory().
> It works great but it pops up an empty tk window. Is there any way to
> prevent the empty tk window from popping up? Here's the code:
>
> import tkFileDialog
>
> answer = tkFileDialog.askdirectory()
>
> if answer is not '':
> #do stuff
>
> Thanks!
> Matt
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>
> Hi,
>
> After a few more hours of googling I answered my own question:
>
> import Tkinter, tkFileDialog
>
> root = Tk()
> root.withdraw()
>
> answer = tkFileDialog.askdirectory()
>
> if answer is not '':
> #do stuff
>
> Thanks!!
hello Matt,
Here is one way
import Tkinter as tk
from tkFileDialog import askdirectory
import os
root = tk.Tk()
root.withdraw()
folder = askdirectory()
if folder:
root.destroy() #make sure to do this!!!!
print os.listdir(folder)
root.mainloop()
good luck!
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