tkFileDialog Question

Is there a way to prevent the dialog from displaying hidden directories? My research has not found anything relating to hidden files or directories. -- GNU/Linux user #557453 "Philosophy is common sense with big words." -James Madison -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

tkFileDialog Question

tkFileDialog.askdirectory() allows the selection of a directory. In my code it displays a line of text at the top of the frame (Please choose a directory, then select OK). A little below that the current path (C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\Python\...) is displayed as a string and

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Subject: Re: tkFileDialog question Matt, There is also a nice thing you need to know about Python if you already do not know. That is the fact that all empty collections bool to False. This makes Truth testing easier. bool([]) False bool('') False bool({}) False bool([1]) True bool([[]]) True

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En Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:32:37 -0300, Matt Mitchell mmitch...@transparent.com escribió: answer = tkFileDialog.askdirectory() if answer is not '': #do stuff Although it reads well, this is *wrong*. You want != here, not the `is not` operator. if answer != '': ... If you want to

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On Nov 15, 8:56 pm, Gabriel Genellina gagsl-...@yahoo.com.ar wrote: En Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:32:37 -0300, Matt Mitchell   mmitch...@transparent.com escribió: answer = tkFileDialog.askdirectory() if answer is not '':    #do stuff Although it reads well, this is *wrong*. You want != here,

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Matt, There is also a nice thing you need to know about Python if you already do not know. That is the fact that all empty collections bool to False. This makes Truth testing easier. bool([]) False bool('') False bool({}) False bool([1]) True bool([[]]) True bool(' ') True any empty

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

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@python.org 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

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Of Matt Mitchell Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 9:33 AM To: python-l...@python.org 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

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Opps, i see you answered your own question ;-) To save you more hours of Googling take a look at these two sites! #great reference http://infohost.nmt.edu/tcc/help/pubs/tkinter/ #more in-depth http://effbot.org/tkinterbook/ you'll want to keep them both under your pillow. --

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James, thank you very much for your answer. Jaime -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

tkFileDialog question

I am creating a very simple GUI with one Entry widget and one Button. The purpose of the Button widget is to Browse for a file using tkFileDialog.askopenfilename(). I bind the button to a handler which spawns a tkFileDialog. This works but the button __stays depressed__ after the handler

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Oops, That should have been, class MyApp: def __init__(self, parent): self.myParent = parent self.myContainer1 = Frame(parent) self.myContainer1.pack() self.entry = Entry(self.myContainer1)