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

I just found this question when looking up why I was getting curly brackets instead of a proper list.

Here's my work around:

file_list=[]
files = files = askopenfilenames(initialdir="C:\\Users\\BVCAP\\Videos", title="Select files")
for file in files:
    file_list.append(file)

I noticed that when I was using the askopenfilenames in my method I never looked at the object returned. I had treated it as a tuple and it worked fine. So knowing it could be iterated in a for loop, it made sense to append each item into a new blank list.

I hope this helps anyone else who encounters this bug.