askopenfilename - A tkFileDialog problem

[Traclo]

Hello all! I have a problem concerning tkFileDialog. When I use the the askopenfilename command to open a text file it opens a tkinter window (apart from the file browsing window) which refuses to close once I've selected and opened the file. It just stays there and when clicked on says not responding.

I am using Vista, writing this file in Wing, and have the latest version of python

My code for this interaction goes like this:

import tkFileDialog
file = tkFileDialog.askopenfile()

This opens the file browsing window fine, but as I said leaves an unresponding tkinter window open when I've selected the file. If I ignore the window and return to the shell the file variable has the text file open fine, but that tkinter window is distracting. And if I manually close it by killing the process, then the shell no longer works.

Anyone with a quick fix?

P.S.
I have to use tkFileDialog, because it is for my university assignment

[drewski526]

hi,
you're only problem is that a root window is automatically created when you call tkFileDialog.as kopenfile().
for instance, try this:

from Tkinter import *
import tkFileDialog
root = Tk()
root.withdraw()
file = tkFileDialog.askopenfile(parent=root)
file_read = file.read()

the last line is just there to read the file.

[Traclo]

Thanks that worked perfect!