How do I allow a user to select a file?

Question

Right now, I have this line in my code to hard-code the directory path

dir_path = \'/home/user/pywork\'

but I would rather let the user sel

Answer 1

One option I found after a quick google (python open directory dialog box) is to use TKinter:

import Tkinter, tkFileDialog
root = Tkinter.Tk()
dirname = tkFileDialog.askdirectory(parent=root, initialdir="/",
                                    title='Please select a directory')

I found the information here.