Browse for file path in python

I think TkFileDialog might be useful for you.

import Tkinterimport tkFileDialogimport osroot = Tkinter.Tk()root.withdraw() #use to hide tkinter windowcurrdir = os.getcwd()tempdir = tkFileDialog.askdirectory(parent=root, initialdir=currdir, title='Please select a directory')if len(tempdir) > 0:    print "You chose %s" % tempdir

EDIT: this link has some more examples

This will generate a GUI with just a button called 'Browse', which prints out the file path that you choose from the browser. The type of the file can be specified by changing the code segment <*.type>.

from Tkinter import * import tkFileDialogimport sysif sys.version_info[0] < 3:   import Tkinter as Tkelse:   import tkinter as Tkdef browse_file():fname = tkFileDialog.askopenfilename(filetypes = (("Template files", "*.type"), ("All files", "*")))print fnameroot = Tk.Tk()root.wm_title("Browser")broButton = Tk.Button(master = root, text = 'Browse', width = 6, command=browse_file)broButton.pack(side=Tk.LEFT, padx = 2, pady=2)Tk.mainloop()

I remade Roberto's code, but rewritten in Python3 (just minor changes).

You can copy-and-paste as is for an easy demonstration .py file, or just copy the function "search_for_file_path" (and associated imports) and place into your program as a function.

import tkinterfrom tkinter import filedialogimport osroot = tkinter.Tk()root.withdraw() #use to hide tkinter windowdef search_for_file_path ():    currdir = os.getcwd()    tempdir = filedialog.askdirectory(parent=root, initialdir=currdir, title='Please select a directory')    if len(tempdir) > 0:        print ("You chose: %s" % tempdir)    return tempdirfile_path_variable = search_for_file_path()print ("\nfile_path_variable = ", file_path_variable)