[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

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

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
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