{"id":2401,"date":"2019-07-21T09:35:39","date_gmt":"2019-07-21T07:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pythonprogramming.altervista.org\/?p=2401"},"modified":"2019-07-21T11:31:41","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T09:31:41","slug":"open-file-browser-with-python-and-tkinter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pythonprogramming.altervista.org\/open-file-browser-with-python-and-tkinter\/","title":{"rendered":"Open file browser with Python and tkinter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This code allows you to open a file browser with a GUI made with tkinter and ttk.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true \">try:\r\n    import os\r\n    import tkinter as tk\r\n    import tkinter.ttk as ttk\r\n    from tkinter import filedialog\r\nexcept ImportError:\r\n    import Tkinter as tk\r\n    import ttk\r\n    import tkFileDialog as filedialog\r\n\r\n\r\nroot = tk.Tk()\r\n\r\nstyle = ttk.Style(root)\r\nstyle.theme_use(\"clam\")\r\n\r\n\r\ndef c_open_file_old():\r\n    rep = filedialog.askopenfilenames(\r\n    \tparent=root,\r\n    \tinitialdir='\/',\r\n    \tinitialfile='tmp',\r\n    \tfiletypes=[\r\n    \t\t(\"PNG\", \"*.png\"),\r\n    \t\t(\"JPEG\", \"*.jpg\"),\r\n    \t\t(\"All files\", \"*\")])\r\n    print(rep)\r\n    try:\r\n\t    os.startfile(rep[0])\r\n    except IndexError:\r\n        print(\"No file selected\")\r\n\r\nttk.Button(root, text=\"Open files\", command=c_open_file_old).grid(row=1, column=0, padx=4, pady=4, sticky='ew')\r\n\r\nroot.mainloop()<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pythonprogramming.altervista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/tkfilebrowser.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2402\" src=\"https:\/\/pythonprogramming.altervista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/tkfilebrowser.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"139\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"FileBrowser with Python and tkinter\" width=\"747\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8z6hM5_VmqM?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open files with tkinter\n<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/pythonprogramming.altervista.org\/open-file-browser-with-python-and-tkinter\/\"> [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2407,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[9,335,51],"class_list":["post-2401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tkinter","tag-files","tag-open","tag-tkinter"],"avopt_banners_inside_post":true,"avopt_banners_on_page":true,"av_copy_from":"","av_sharing_message":"","av_sharing_allowed":false,"av_sharing_on":{"fb":[],"tw":[]},"av_allow_affiliate_banner":false,"av_allow_affiliate_multi_banner":false,"av_show_affiliation_buy_button":false,"av_post_rating":true,"av_have_post_rating_value":false,"av_is_artificial_intelligence_content":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pythonprogramming.altervista.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pythonprogramming.altervista.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pythonprogramming.altervista.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pythonprogramming.altervista.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pythonprogramming.altervista.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2401"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pythonprogramming.altervista.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2405,"href":"https:\/\/pythonprogramming.altervista.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401\/revisions\/2405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pythonprogramming.altervista.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pythonprogramming.altervista.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pythonprogramming.altervista.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pythonprogramming.altervista.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}