Python easygui can't select file

Question

Here's my code:

import easygui
f = easygui.fileopenbox()
print f

Seems simple, but when I run it, I can't select any of the files, see figure in link. Sorry if this is dumb, but I am at my wit's end!

http://imgur.com/c20TvQ5

Answer 1

EasyGui isn't supported anymore. On OS X I don't have this problem with fileopenbox (it looks like what happens with diropenbox actually.) I'd recommend you try something like wxPython. Here's how to get a file open box in that (from https://stackoverflow.com/a/9319832/866271)

import wx

def get_path(wildcard):
    app = wx.App(None)
    style = wx.FD_OPEN | wx.FD_FILE_MUST_EXIST
    dialog = wx.FileDialog(None, 'Open', wildcard=wildcard, style=style)
    if dialog.ShowModal() == wx.ID_OK:
        path = dialog.GetPath()
    else:
        path = None
    dialog.Destroy()
    return path

print get_path('*.txt')

Tested on OS X with no problem. It's also cross-platform. If you're going to be doing GUI development, there's a lot of options to look at but wxPython is a good one because it uses the native widgets of whatever OS you're running. So everything looks pretty :)

For your case, you could instead call get_path('*.csv') if that's the type of file you're opening. Or just call get_path('*') to get all of them.