Simple easygui File Dialogs
Did you know that you can have a file-open or -save dialog in just 2 lines of Python? Stephen Ferg’s excellent easygui module makes it possible. No other modules are needed, easygui is cross-platform. See also the enterbox example.
Two lines of code:
import easygui
fileNameAndPath = easygui.fileopenbox(title = "Choose your file", argInitialFile = "*.txt")
Resulting dialog with a custom title and a ‘*.txt’ file filter:
Full code:
# fileopenbox example, 20070619 Ian Ozsvald
# documentation from: http://www.ferg.org/easygui/easygui.txt
# For file-opening:
# fileopenbox(title=None, argInitialFile=None):
# For file-saving:
# filesavebox(title=None, argInitialFile=None)
import easygui
fileNameAndPath = easygui.fileopenbox(title = "Choose your file", argInitialFile = "*.txt")
# fileNameAndPath will look like
# 'C:/easygui/someDocument.txt'
# if the user selects a file
# or None if the user presses Cancel
print fileNameAndPath
To see easygui’s fileopenbox, filesavebox, choicebox, enterbox and ynbox in action and learn how to write a Python program from scratch, visit: Python 101 - easygui and csv.
June 19th, 2007 at 4:10 pm
See also EasyDialogs:
http://www.averdevelopment.com/python/EasyDialogs.html
“EasyDialogs for Windows is a ctypes based emulation of the EasyDialogs module included in the Python distribution for Mac.”
June 19th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
Interesting, I get to learn something new everytime I make a post like this
Thanks for the link.
Ian.
June 21st, 2007 at 10:56 am
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June 26th, 2007 at 10:48 am
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