In a message of Sat, 22 Aug 2015 12:20:31 +1000, Chris Roy-Smith writes: >Hi, >environment: Python 2.7, Ubuntu 12.4 Linux > >I am trying to get the list of directories shown by >tkFileDialog.askdirectory to not show hidden files (starting with .) > >this code results in lots of hidden directories listed in the interface >making things harder than they need to be for the user. > >#! /usr/bin/python >import Tkinter, tkFileDialog >root = Tkinter.Tk() >root.withdraw() > >dirname = >tkFileDialog.askdirectory(parent=root,initialdir="/home/chris/",title='Pick >a directory') > >How can I filter out these hidden directories? >Help(tkFileDialog) doesn't help me as it just shows **options, but >doesn't show what these options might be.
The options are listed here: http://effbot.org/tkinterbook/tkinter-file-dialogs.htm or http://infohost.nmt.edu/tcc/help/pubs/tkinter/web/tkFileDialog.html Unfortunately, they do not help. There is all sorts of help for 'only show things that match a certain pattern' but not for 'only show things that do not match a certain pattern'. (Or maybe my pattern-making skill is at fault, but I don't think so.) tix (tkinter extensions) https://wiki.python.org/moin/Tix have some more file dialogs, so maybe there is joy there. This seems utterly crazy to me -- you surely aren't the first person who wanted to exclude certain directories in a file dialog. I will look more later this afternoon in my old tkinter files. I must have wanted to do this at one point, mustn't I? puzzled, Laura _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
