Select file from hard drive (i.e. x = GetFile())

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#1

Looking for a default function to select a file from the users hard drive (e.g. x = GetFile()).

I’ve looked at the File and I/O packages, with no results. They seem to assume you already know where the file lives.

I’m looking for a function that opens a “Browse” window that the user can navigate and return a full path (including filename) .

Thanks,
Doug

#2

Since you are looking for a “Browse” window, you are thinking of a GUI app. The GUI library that comes with Python is tkinter.

An example that might interest you is found at File Explorer in Python using Tkinter - GeeksforGeeks

André

#3

There are some basic GUI file dialogs as standard:

from tkinter.filedialog import askopenfilename, asksaveasfilename

You can read up on them, and the various other dialogs provided, here:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/dialog.html