non-blocking getkey?

[Ulli Horlacher]

Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

> >       from Tkinter import Tk
> >       from tkFileDialog import askopenfilename
> >
> >       Tk().withdraw()
> >       file = askopenfilename()
> 
> To get multiple names, add 's'. 

I have found it already, thanks.


> The limitation is that this will not work if any of the file names 
> contain astral (non-BMP) chars because tk cannot handle such characters.

What are "astral chars"?

But anyway, askopenfilename() is a dead end for me: one cannot select
directories with it, just plain files.
In my application the user MUST select files and directories (in one go).


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