opening 'file open' dialog from console
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> I would like to open a file open dialog from a console on windows (2000).
> I do this now using the line
>>>> from tkFileDialog import *
>>>> fileName = askopenfilename(filetypes=[(".txt", ".txt")], title="Select
> the file")
> but this opens a second window and leaves it there. what is the best way
> (tkinter or MFC) to do this w/o the second window?
Fetch the root singleton (or whatever it is) out of Tk land:
root = Tk()
Withdraw it:
root.withdraw()
Warning: Sometimes this withdraws the wrong thing. >sigh<
Alternately, pass it into 'askopenfilename', if possible.
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