Parsing the results of askopenfilenames()?

Question

I\'m trying to get a list of filenames from tkinter.filedialog.askopenfilenames() in Python 3.2.

    files = askopenfilenames(initialdir=\"C:\\\\Users\\\\BVC         


        

Answer 1

This is actually a bug on the Windows version that has been present since around the 2.6 release of Python. You can find the issue on their tracker, and there's a workaround in the comments (I have not personally tried this workaround because I'm on Linux, which returns a proper tuple). I'm not aware of a fix since then, and the issue has not been marked as closed/resolved.

The suggested workaround in the comment is essentially to do this:

master = Tk()
files = askopenfilenames(initialdir="C:\\Users\\BVCAP\\Videos", title="Select files")
files = master.tk.splitlist(files) #Possible workaround
self.num_files.set(len(files))