Tkinter is adding newlines every 30 seconds:
Unwanted newlines
I'm running this in windows CMD.
I wrote a simple program to test this with a single askopenfilename() call in there.
When I click the browse button, it adds a newline, then after I choose the file and click begin, it adds a newline every 30 seconds while the program is "running":
import tkinter as tk
from tkinter import filedialog
from tkinter.filedialog import askdirectory
import time
def input1():
input1_path = tk.filedialog.askopenfilename()
input1_entry.delete(1, tk.END) # Remove current text in entry
input1_entry.insert(0, input1_path) # Insert the 'path'
#returns file paths for the input files and output directory
def begin():
global inputFileName
inputFileName = input1_entry.get()
master.destroy()
master = tk.Tk()
master.title('Omega NExT Archive Plotter')
one_frame = tk.Frame(master)
two_frame = tk.Frame(master)
line1 = tk.Frame(master, height=1, width=400, bg="grey80", relief='groove')
input1_path = tk.Label(one_frame, text="Archive File Input:")
input1_entry = tk.Entry(one_frame, text="", width=60)
browse1 = tk.Button(one_frame, text="Browse", command=input1)
begin_button = tk.Button(two_frame, text='Begin!', command=begin)
one_frame.pack(side=tk.TOP)
line1.pack(pady=10)
two_frame.pack(side=tk.BOTTOM)
input1_path.pack()
input1_entry.pack()
browse1.pack(pady=10)
begin_button.pack(pady=20, fill=tk.X)
master.mainloop()
time.sleep(1000000)
So I have other guys I work with running this on their computers, and it sounds like the problem is happening on our "managed" computers, but not the "less-than-managed" computers. It sounds like some kind of weird IT issue.
I have a python script that takes the file path and runs the following script:
file = 'C:/Users/crist/Downloads/Fraction_Event_Report_Wednesday_June_16_2021_20_27_38.pdf'
lines = []
with pdfplumber.open(file) as pdf:
pages = pdf.pages
for page in pdf.pages:
text = page.extract_text()
print(text)
I have created an entry box with tkinter:
import tkinter as tk
master = tk.Tk()
tk.Label(master,
text="File_path").grid(row=0)
e = tk.Entry(master)
e.grid(row=0, column=1)
tk.Button(master,
text='Run Script',
command=master.quit).grid(row=3,
column=0,
sticky=tk.W,
pady=4)
tk.mainloop()
I would like to assign the File_path imputed in the entry box by the user to the "file" in the script and run the script when pressing the "Run Script" button. How can I do that?
It's better to spawn a file dialog instead of using a tkinter.Entry:
# GUI.py
from tkinter.filedialog import askopenfilename
import tkinter as tk
# Create the window and hide it
root = tk.Tk()
root.withdraw()
# Now you are free to popup any dialog that you need
filetypes = (("PDF file", "*.pdf"), ("All files", "*.*"))
filepath = askopenfilename(filetypes=filetypes)
# Now use the filepath
lines = []
with pdfplumber.open(filepath) as pdf:
...
# Destroy the window
root.destroy()
The purpose of my code is to create a GUI that has 4 buttons. 2 of them are to open a "browse" window, allowing the user to select a file from a directory. The third button is to allow the user to choose a directory for the final document to be outputted to. The fourth button applies my python code to both files, creating the outputted document.
In attempting to create the "browse" buttons, through many posts here on stackoverflow and on the internet, most solutions include the "askopenfilename" module that is often imported from tkFileDialog. However no matter how I word it, or whatever variations of tkinter modules that i import, I consistently receive the same error messages of "no module name tkfileDialog" or "askopenfilename is not defined".
Am I doing something wrong with my code? Is this a common error found in tkinter with python 3.6? How would one go about creating a browse button that finds a file and adds its path?
Please let me know!
Thanks.
Below is my code:
import os
#from tkFileDialog import *
from tkinter import filedialog
from Tkinter import *
from tkfileDialog import askopenfilename
content = 'apple'
file_path = 'squarebot'
#FUNCTIONS
def browsefunc(): #browse button to search for files
filename = askopenfilename()
infile = open(filename, 'r')
content = infile.read()
pathadd = os.path.dirname(filename)+filename
pathlabel.delete(0, END)
pathlabel.insert(0, pathadd)
return content
def open_file(): #also browse button to search for files - im trying various things to get this to work!
global content
global file_path
#filename = filedialog.askopenfilename(filetypes = (typeName {.txt},))
filename = askopenfilename()
infile = open(filename, 'r')
content = infile.read()
file_path = os.path.dirname(filename)
entry.delete(0, END)
entry.insert(0, file_path)
return content
def process_file(content): #process conversion code
print(content)
def directoryname():
directoryname = filedialog.askdirectory() # pick a folder
#GUI
root = Tk()
root.title('DCLF Converter')
root.geometry("598x600")
mf = Frame(root)
mf.pack()
f1 = Frame(mf, width=600, height=250) #DC file
f1.pack(fill=X)
f2 = Frame(mf, width=600, height=250) #LF file
f2.pack(fill=X)
f3 = Frame(mf, width=600, height=250) #destination folder
f3.pack(fill=X)
f4 = Frame(mf, width=600, height=250) #convert button
f4.pack()
file_path = StringVar
Label(f1,text="Select Your DC File (Only txt files)").grid(row=0, column=0, sticky='e') #DC button
entry = Entry(f1, width=50, textvariable=file_path)
entry.grid(row=0,column=1,padx=2,pady=2,sticky='we',columnspan=25)
Label(f2,text="Select Your LF File (Only csv files)").grid(row=0, column=0, sticky='e') #LF button
entry = Entry(f2, width=50, textvariable=file_path)
entry.grid(row=0,column=1,padx=2,pady=2,sticky='we',columnspan=25)
Label(f3,text="Select Your Destination Folder").grid(row=0, column=0, sticky='e') #destination folder button
entry = Entry(f3, width=50, textvariable=directoryname)
entry.grid(row=0,column=1,padx=2,pady=2,sticky='we',columnspan=25)
Button(f1, text="Browse", command=browsefunc).grid(row=0, column=27, sticky='ew', padx=8, pady=4)#DC button
Button(f2, text="Browse", command=browsefunc).grid(row=0, column=27, sticky='ew', padx=8, pady=4)#LF button
Button(f3, text="Browse", command=browsefunc).grid(row=0, column=27, sticky='ew', padx=8, pady=4)#destination folder button
Button(f4, text="RECONCILE NOW", width=32, command=lambda: process_file(content)).grid(sticky='ew', padx=10, pady=10)#convert button
root.mainloop()
P.S If you have found any other errors in my code please let me know. I am just starting with tkinter, and as such this may be attributed to something completely unrelated!
Much Appreciated
This is what I use in my code so it will work with the Tkinter module in both Python 2 and 3:
try:
import Tkinter as tk
import ttk
from tkFileDialog import askopenfilename
import tkMessageBox
import tkSimpleDialog
from tkSimpleDialog import Dialog
except ModuleNotFoundError: # Python 3
import tkinter as tk
from tkinter import ttk
from tkinter.filedialog import askopenfilename
import tkinter.messagebox as tkMessageBox
import tkinter.simpledialog as tkSimpleDialog
from tkinter.simpledialog import Dialog
You asked to be notified any of other errors and I noticed the way you're using askopenfilename doesn't look right. Specifically, the filetypes keyword argument should be a sequence of two-element tuples containing file type names and patterns that will select what appears in the file listing. So for text files you would use:
filename = askopenfilename(filetypes=[('text files', '*.txt')])
I usually also include a generic pattern to allow easy access to files with other extensions thusly:
filename = askopenfilename(filetypes=[('text files', '*.txt'), ("all files", "*")])
Either way, it's important to remember to check the value returned because it might be the empty string it the user didn't select anything.
The problem was actually that I needed to append askopenfilename() to filedialog as mentioned by Roars in a now deleted comment!(it looks like this --> filedialog.askopenfilename().
The module name is misnamed.
Since the python version is 3.6 you need to use filedialog library. The includes should look something like this:
import os
from tkinter import *
import tkinter.filedialog
or
import os
from tkinter import *
from tkinter import filedialog
You can try this:
from tkinter.filedialog import askopenfilename
I would like to make a browse folder button using tkinter and to store the path into a variable. So far i am able to print the path but i am not able to store it in a variable. Can you please advise?
Below i attach the code that i use.
from tkinter import filedialog
from tkinter import *
def browse_button():
filename = filedialog.askdirectory()
print(filename)
return filename
root = Tk()
v = StringVar()
button2 = Button(text="Browse", command=browse_button).grid(row=0, column=3)
mainloop()
Here is an example of storing the directory path as a global variable and using that to populate a Label.
from tkinter import filedialog
from tkinter import *
def browse_button():
# Allow user to select a directory and store it in global var
# called folder_path
global folder_path
filename = filedialog.askdirectory()
folder_path.set(filename)
print(filename)
root = Tk()
folder_path = StringVar()
lbl1 = Label(master=root,textvariable=folder_path)
lbl1.grid(row=0, column=1)
button2 = Button(text="Browse", command=browse_button)
button2.grid(row=0, column=3)
mainloop()
I'm trying to create a simple button that allows me to choose files such as text doc/pictures(jpg/png). I tried searching for answers here but didn't had any luck. I'm using Tkinter for my GUI interface.
This are my codes so far.
from Tkinter import *
root = Tk()
root.title("Hashing Tool")
root.geometry("600x300")
frame = Frame(root)
frame.pack()
bottomframe = Frame(root)
bottomframe.pack( side = BOTTOM )
button = Button(frame, text="Choose File", fg="black")
button.pack( side = BOTTOM)
from tkFileDialog import askopenfilename
filename = askopenfilename()
print(filename)
root.mainloop()
Currently, you ask for a file as soon as the program starts. You have to put that part of the code into a callback function and pass that to the button's command parameter.
def getfile():
filename = askopenfilename()
print(filename)
button = Button(frame, text="Choose File", fg="black", command=getfile)