open multiple filenames in tkinter and add the filesnames to a list

Question

what I want to do is to select multiple files using the tkinter filedialog and then add those items to a list. After that I want to use the list to process each file one by

Answer 1

In Python 3, the way it worked for me was this (respect lowercase):

from tkinter.filedialog import askopenfilenames

filenames = askopenfilenames(title = "Open 'xls' or 'xlsx' file") 

for filename in filenames:
    # print or do whatever you want

I hope you find it useful! Regards!