> hi > > i am developing a GUI application using TKINTER > > i want to open a file from the askopenfile(which is a tkFileDialog) using > OS.SYSTEM. > > i have already created the file open dilog using > tkFileDialog.askopenfile(parent=root,mode='rb',title='choose a file') > Now i want to open a file from this dialog using OS.SYSTEM
I am not completely familiar with tkFileDialog but I would bet that it returns the file you choose as a string. Try this. fn = tkFileDialog.askopenfile(parent=root,mode='rb',title='choose a file') os.system(fn) Note: This means open a file as explorer.exe would open a file, such as an executable _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
