Google-Drive-related shell_ipc_client.cc errors from filedialog (tkinter)

Question

Consider this Python script, the first lines of which are meant to ask for an input file:

import os
import csv

import tkinter as tk
from tkinter import filedialog

from setup import *
    
# Input the piece of music

input('Select a piece of music, in XML format.')
print()

root = tk.Tk()
root.withdraw()

piece_path = filedialog.askopenfilename()
file_name = piece_path.split('/')[-1].split('.')[0]

When running this (VS Code 1.63.2, on Win10), execution freezes after the text is displayed:

Select a piece of music, in XML format.

If at that point I press Enter in the terminal, I get:

[10284:ShellIpcClient] shell_ipc_client.cc:116:Connect Can't connect to socket at: \\.\Pipe\GoogleDriveFSPipe_z8080_shell
[10284:ShellIpcClient] shell_ipc_client.cc:116:Connect Can't connect to socket at: \\.\Pipe\GoogleDriveFSPipe_z8080_shell
[13220:ShellIpcClient] shell_ipc_client.cc:116:Connect Can't connect to socket at: \\.\Pipe\GoogleDriveFSPipe_z8080_shell
[9136:ShellIpcClient] shell_ipc_client.cc:116:Connect Can't connect to socket at: \\.\Pipe\GoogleDriveFSPipe_z8080_shell
[10284:ShellIpcClient] shell_ipc_client.cc:116:Connect Can't connect to socket at: \\.\Pipe\GoogleDriveFSPipe_z8080_shell
[9136:ShellIpcClient] shell_ipc_client.cc:116:Connect Can't connect to socket at: \\.\Pipe\GoogleDriveFSPipe_z8080_shell
[9176:ShellIpcClient] shell_ipc_client.cc:116:Connect Can't connect to socket at: \\.\Pipe\GoogleDriveFSPipe_z8080_shell
[9136:ShellIpcClient] shell_ipc_client.cc:116:Connect Can't connect to socket at: \\.\Pipe\GoogleDriveFSPipe_z8080_shell
[10284:ShellIpcClient] shell_ipc_client.cc:116:Connect Can't connect to socket at: \\.\Pipe\GoogleDriveFSPipe_z8080_shell
[9136:ShellIpcClient] shell_ipc_client.cc:116:Connect Can't connect to socket at: \\.\Pipe\GoogleDriveFSPipe_z8080_shell
[9176:ShellIpcClient] shell_ipc_client.cc:116:Connect Can't connect to socket at: \\.\Pipe\GoogleDriveFSPipe_z8080_shell
[9176:ShellIpcClient] shell_ipc_client.cc:116:Connect Can't connect to socket at: \\.\Pipe\GoogleDriveFSPipe_z8080_shell
[9176:ShellIpcClient] shell_ipc_client.cc:116:Connect Can't connect to socket at: \\.\Pipe\GoogleDriveFSPipe_z8080_shell
[9136:ShellIpcClient] shell_ipc_client.cc:116:Connect Can't connect to socket at: \\.\Pipe\GoogleDriveFSPipe_z8080_shell
[9176:ShellIpcClient] shell_ipc_client.cc:116:Connect Can't connect to socket at: \\.\Pipe\GoogleDriveFSPipe_z8080_shell

These error messages aren't very helpful: this .py file is local on my PC, and I have no app open that uses Google Drive in any way. I have a firewall, but these errors happen even if I turn it off. The current directory has been changed to the location of the py file, prior to running.

SHould say that, upon running this code I did get a OpenFile window, which I accidentally closed, and which never appeared again, despite not having changed anything in the code!

Answer 1

This error happened to me to with fiedialog.askopenfilename() when my google drive was not on. so my Google drive I: looked like I:?.

`2023-01-06T09:07:05.111ZE [12776:ShellIpcClient] shell_ipc_client.cc:129:Connect Can't connect to socket at: \\.\Pipe\GoogleDriveFSPipe_Y_shell `

After opening google drive app and trying filedialog.askopenfilename() again it worked without problem