Directory chooser in Tk

[Aaron J Reichow]

>  >  |I need a dialog similar to the askopenfilename() dialog, but for
>  >  |directories.  Is there such a beast?
>  > 

I needed the same thing.  I just wound up using askopenfilename(),
choosing any file in the directory I wanted, and then using os.path.split()
to dump the name of the file and retain the path in another variable.  Not
elegant, but it works.

Aaron