Choosing a file in Python with simple Dialog

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I would like to get file path as input in my Python console application   Currently I can only ask for full path as an input in the console   Is there a way to trigger a simple user interface where users can select file instead of typing the full path

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Python 3 x version of Etaoin s answer for completeness   from tkinter filedialog import askopenfilename filename   askopenfilename

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With EasyGui  import easygui print easygui fileopenbox     To install  pip install easygui  Demo  import easygui easygui egdemo

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In Python 2 use the tkFileDialog module   import tkFileDialog  tkFileDialog askopenfilename     In Python 3 use the tkinter filedialog module   import tkinter filedialog  tkinter filedialog askopenfilename

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How about using tkinter  from Tkinter import Tk       from tkinter import Tk for Python 3 x from tkinter filedialog import askopenfilename  Tk   withdraw     we don t want a full GUI  so keep the root window from appearing filename   askopenfilename     show an  quot Open quot  dialog box and return the path to the selected file print filename   Done

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Another option to consider is Zenity  http   freecode com projects zenity    I had a situation where I was developing a Python server application  no GUI component  and hence didn t want to introduce a dependency on any python GUI toolkits  but I wanted some of my debug scripts to be parameterized by input files and wanted to visually prompt the user for a file if they didn t specify one on the command line  Zenity was a perfect fit  To achieve this  invoke  zenity --file-selection  using the subprocess module and capture the stdout  Of course this solution isn t Python-specific    Zenity supports multiple platforms and happened to already be installed on our dev servers so it facilitated our debugging development without introducing an unwanted dependency

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I obtained much better results with wxPython than tkinter  as suggested in this answer to a later duplicate question   https   stackoverflow com a 9319832  The wxPython version produced the file dialog that looked the same as the open file dialog from just about any other application on my OpenSUSE Tumbleweed installation with the xfce desktop  whereas tkinter produced something cramped and hard to read with an unfamiliar side-scrolling interface

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