I am using fileopenbox() and I want to select all text files I have when the windows box is open. I have tried to press shift or ctrl + A, but it didn't work.
openfile = fileopenbox("Welcome", "COPR", filetypes= "*.txt")
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You can select multiple files if you include multiple=True in the arguments:
openfiles = fileopenbox("Welcome", "COPR", filetypes= "*.txt", multiple=True)
Note that now fileopenbox will return not a string, but a list of strings like:
["foo.txt", "Hello.txt", "mytxt.txt"]
Rodolfo Leibner
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`easygui` has been around since at least 2002 and the `fileopenbox()` function in many earlier versions of it don't support a `muliple` keyword argument (although support for it would be easy to add). – martineau Nov 16 '15 at 00:54
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another option could be using tkinter as follows(python 3.x):
import tkinter as tk
from tkinter import filedialog
root = tk.Tk()
root.withdraw()
files = filedialog.askopenfilenames(parent=root, initialdir="/", title='Please select files')
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It's not possible with easygui. What you can do is reuse the code from easygui (see line 1700) and modify it slightly to use askopenfilenames instead of askopenfilename.
