open multiple filenames in tkinter and add the filesnames to a list

Question

what I want to do is to select multiple files using the tkinter filedialog and then add those items to a list. After that I want to use the list to process each file one by one.

#replace.py import string def main():         #import tkFileDialog         #import re         #ff = tkFileDialog.askopenfilenames()         #filez = re.findall('{(.*?)}', ff)         import Tkinter,tkFileDialog         root = Tkinter.Tk()         filez = tkFileDialog.askopenfilenames(parent=root,title='Choose a file') 

Now, I am able to select multiple files, but I dont know how to add those filenames to the list. any ideas?

Answer 1

askopenfilenames returns a string instead of a list, that problem is still open in the issue tracker, and the best solution so far is to use splitlist:

import Tkinter,tkFileDialog  root = Tkinter.Tk() filez = tkFileDialog.askopenfilenames(parent=root, title='Choose a file') print root.tk.splitlist(filez) 

Python 3 update:

tkFileDialog has been renamed, and now askopenfilenames directly returns a tuple:

import tkinter as tk import tkinter.filedialog as fd  root = tk.Tk() filez = fd.askopenfilenames(parent=root, title='Choose a file')