Hi, I've found this little gem in the Tk docs https://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.4/TkCmd/getOpenFile.htm#M13 >From what I see "file patterns" in the file dialog are not "regex patterns" and do not support special characters. Only things that work are: 1) * - any extension 2) "" - files without extension 3) literal extension without wildcard chars Unfortunately it looks like there is no simple way to filter out hidden files. Check out this answer https://mail.python.org/pipermail//tutor/2011-November/086483.html
Regards, Pawel Mosakowski On Sat, 22 Aug 2015 13:03:46 +0200 Laura Creighton <l...@openend.se> wrote: > Somebody on the tutor mailing list wants to match > "all files and direcories in this directory that do not start > with a ." > > The filetypes option seems only to want patterns to match, not > patterns to exclude. Is my pattern matching magic just off, or > is there no way to exclude things in a tkFileDialog? > > puzzled, > Laura > _______________________________________________ > Tkinter-discuss mailing list > Tkinter-discuss@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tkinter-discuss _______________________________________________ Tkinter-discuss mailing list Tkinter-discuss@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tkinter-discuss
