Lightweight cross-platform way to prompt for a file

Question

I found a very built-in and easy way to prompt a system-specific nice open file dialog:

import Tkinter
from tkFileDialog import askopenfilename
tk_root = Tki         


        

Answer 1

There is a C library designed to perform this function, which could be wrapped in python.

https://github.com/mlabbe/nativefiledialog

Not sure what limitations the py2exe format imposes but I think this could be packaged into a pip wheel for example.