Tkinter - asksavefilename vs askopenfilename - neither?

Original Post

Oct 19, 2013 at 4:10 PM

In my application I want to let the user specify a new file name or pick an existing file which will simply be appended.

asksavefilename works to specify a new file, but it throws a warning window if an existing file is picked saying it will be overwritten.

askopenfilename lets you pick an existing file without the overwrite warning, but you can't specify a new file

Any ideas how to make either of these work or am I going to have to roll my own dialog? If I could force asksavefilename not to throw the overwrite warning, that would be great.

-Kirk

Adam_42

Oct 19, 2013 at 9:02 PM

It seems neither do what you need.

You could go for http://www.wxpython.org/docs/api/wx.FileDialog-class.html instead.

kirkd

Oct 19, 2013 at 11:35 PM

Yeah, I thought of that, too. The catch is that this is the very last piece of my application that I need to finish. The whole thing is complete apart from the Save functionality and all done in Tkinter. Ugh. I hate to mix the two, but maybe for this one piece...

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