tkinter - retrieve file name during askopenfile

Question

I have a text editor made with Python and tkinter.

This is my \'open file\' method:

def onOpen(self):
        file = askopenfile(filetypes=[(\"Text files         


        

Answer 1

You are passing the file object so you see the reference to the file object as the title, you can get the name from the file object with name = root.title(file.name).

If you want just the base name use os.path.basename:

import os
name = os.path.basename(file.name)