Re: [python-win32] Tkinter newbie

2015-03-03 Thread Preston Landers
Fair enough. What I was getting at is that sometimes people think because they happen to be using Windows this is a good place for general Python questions, rather than stuff that is Windows platform specific. Or in this case he may not have realized that tkinter isn't specific to Windows. On Tue

Re: [python-win32] Tkinter newbie

2015-03-03 Thread Tim Golden
On 03/03/2015 16:50, Preston Landers wrote: It's not unusual for people to think this list is for general discussion of Python for Windows people, rather than specifically for the PyWin32 package. That's because it is. From https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32: "All issues re

Re: [python-win32] Tkinter newbie

2015-03-03 Thread Preston Landers
It's not unusual for people to think this list is for general discussion of Python for Windows people, rather than specifically for the PyWin32 package. On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 03/03/2015 08:28, John Sampson wrote: > >> I had spent a day trying to find a solut

Re: [python-win32] Tkinter newbie

2015-03-03 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 03/03/2015 08:28, John Sampson wrote: I had spent a day trying to find a solution. Still, I know now one place I won't look for help. JS I don't understand why you've asked a tkinter question on a list targeted at Python on Windows. Either try the main python mailing list at https://mai

[python-win32] Tkinter newbie

2015-03-03 Thread John Sampson
I had spent a day trying to find a solution. Still, I know now one place I won't look for help. JS In case of a real person that wanted help: "We reap what we sow" or "ask niceley and show that you tried yourself to find a solution". ___ python-w

Re: [python-win32] Tkinter newbie

2015-03-02 Thread Andreas Holtz
Thank you and you're right. In case of a troll, I still answered because perhaps someone is outhere that could make use of the hints, same as I could from this list and other free ressources when I started Python. In case of a real person that wanted help: "We reap what we sow" or "ask niceley

Re: [python-win32] Tkinter newbie

2015-03-02 Thread Ethan Furman
On 03/02/2015 01:48 PM, Andreas Holtz wrote: > And perhaps you'll ask yourself, why you wanted to waste the precious time of > others at the > beginning, when learning and exploring by yourself makes so much more fun. The first 30 or so lines were great: instructive, pointers of where to go for

Re: [python-win32] Tkinter newbie

2015-03-02 Thread Andreas Holtz
Hi John, seems you lack basic understanding of Python (and perhaps programming languages at all?). I recommend you reading a book like "Learning Python" from Mark Lutz or check some courses on https://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Programmers Then you will learn the differences between att

[python-win32] Tkinter newbie

2015-03-02 Thread John Sampson
Hello - I am trying to find out how to write code in Tkinter that opens a file-selection dialog so that I can open a file. It would be part of a program, not a whole program that does nothing else. I have found many examples of Tkinter code, each one using a different approach, some using a