Python: JFileChooser for Python?

Question

I was wondering if there is something similar to Java's JFileChooser for Python?

JFileChooser is a graphical front end to choose a file.

Preferably something that is already with Python..maybe with Tkinter.

Thanks for your help :)

Answer 1

That would depend on your windowing toolkit. wxWidgets provides the wxFileDialog.

Answer 2

wxPython (www.wxpython.org) provides the wx.FileDialog class which will give you a native file selection dialog on any of the supported platforms (Mac, Linux or Windows).

Answer 3

Maybe you would like to take a look at Jython.

Answer 4

Easiest way I ever found to do this (using PyGTK and Kiwi):

from kiwi.ui.dialogs import open as open_dialog

chosen_path = open_dialog('Select a file', folder='/start/folder')

if chosen_path is not None:
    # do something ...

Answer 5

For something that doesn't require wxPython and sticks with the standard Python libs, you can use the tkFileDialog.askopenfilename() method:

#!/usr/bin/python

from Tkinter import *
from tkFileDialog import askopenfilename

root = Tk()
root.withdraw()
print askopenfilename()