On Jan 23, 5:13 pm, Steven D'Aprano <steve +comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 12:23:13 -0800, rantingrick wrote: > > I am not > > trying to create a working file browser so you can steal my code. > > Dammit! There goes my brilliant idea for getting rich. > > Step 1: Start company. > Step 2: Steal working file browser from Internet. > Step 4: Profit! > > I think rantingrick's comment inadvertently shows in a nutshell > everything wrong with this thread and why there is so little interest in > his proposal. If RR is right about the GUI toolkit making or breaking the > entire Python community, there should be hundreds of people with an > opinion, not just a handful. > > (1) rantingrick is willing to spend *hours* brow-beating people, > insulting them, and cajoling them into doing things *his* way, supposedly > because of his deep concern for the Python community, but isn't willing > to donate a lousy *file browser* to the community. > > (2) GUI programming is TOO DAMN HARD, and until that fact is addressed, > it's difficult for the majority of people to care whether the toolkit > used (or, more likely, not used at all) is Tkinter, or wxPython, or > something else. > > For something as common as displaying a file browser, it should be as > simple as this: > > import gui_toolkit # whichever > path = gui_toolkit.select_file()
> You mean like: >>> import tkFileDialog >>> path=tkFileDialog.askopenfiles() >>> print path [<open file '/Users/bryan/Documents/1.gif', mode 'r' at 0x5bf50>] :-) (I think the actual point of contention isn't a file dialog, but a file browser like the windows explorer. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list