filedialog, tkinter and opening files

Question

I\'m working for the first time on coding a Browse button for a program in Python3. I\'ve been searching the internet and this site, and even python standard library.

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Answer 1

Did you try adding the self prefix to the fileName and replacing the method above the Button ? With the self, it becomes visible between methods.

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def load_file(self):
    self.fileName = filedialog.askopenfilename(filetypes = (("Template files", "*.tplate")
                                                     ,("HTML files", "*.html;*.htm")
                                                     ,("All files", "*.*") ))
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