Better looking Tkinter File Dialogs for Python 2.7

Question

In my application, the user needs to browse for files. However, the askdirectory from tkFileDialog isn't really comfortable for using and browsing files since it's somewhat outdated. It looks like this:

What I want to achieve should look like the "default" windows browse dialog. Like this:

(Source https://www.pythontutorial.net/tkinter/tkinter-open-file-dialog/)

I am not sure (since I couldn't find proof) but I remember someone telling me that it looks like this because I am using Python 2.7 and not 3+. Is that true? Does an alternative exist?

Answer 1

It seems it has something to do with your version, as I have done a bit of research and I am using python 3 with the included tkinter and it shows a normal windows explorer popup. So, if you are using one of the up-to-date versions, it should be the OS' default. (I am unable to test that as python 2 will not work properly on my machine although I can confirm since you are using an older one) I recreated your case with this code:

from tkinter import *

root = Tk()

filedialog.askdirectory()

root.mainloop()