tkinter global variable

[ChalaoAdda]

On Fri, 13 Nov 2020 12:04:53 -0500, Richard Damon wrote:

> On 11/13/20 11:42 AM, ChalaoAdda wrote:
>> On Fri, 13 Nov 2020 16:04:03 +0000, Stefan Ram wrote:
>>
>>> ChalaoAdda <chalao.adda at gmail.com> writes:
>>>> On Fri, 13 Nov 2020 15:41:20 +0000, Stefan Ram wrote:
>>>>> ChalaoAdda <chalao.adda at gmail.com> writes:
>>>>>> I am trying to read a file from askopenfilename outside the
>>>>>> function.
>>>>>> I am getting blank file name. What am I doing wrong? Here is my
>>>>>> code.
>>>>> It is possible that you try to read from "pic" before "on_openfile"
>>>>> ever was executed.
>>>> I didn't get you. I click on the menu item "Open" and then from the
>>>> filedialog select a file. And then outside that function I am trying
>>>> to read and print the file.
>>>   I have added two additional statements to your source code:
>>>   print( "A" ) and print( "B" ).
>>>
>>>   If you now execute this new source code, you might observe that "B"
>>>   is being printed before "A" is being printed.
>>>
>>> from tkinter import *
>>> from tkinter import filedialog
>>>
>>> def on_openfile():
>>>     print( "A" )
>>>     global pic pic = filedialog.askopenfilename()
>>>
>>>
>>> root = Tk()
>>>
>>> menubar = Menu(root)
>>> root.config(menu=menubar)
>>> file_menu = Menu(menubar) file_menu.add_command(label="Open",
>>> command=on_openfile) file_menu.add_command(label="Exit",
>>> command=root.destroy)
>>> menubar.add_cascade(label="File", menu=file_menu)
>>>
>>>
>>> print( "B" )
>>> f = open(pic)
>>> print(f.read())
>>>
>>> root.mainloop()
>> Ok. I got the point. So what do I need to do access the variable? How
>> do I return a value from that function?
>>
>> Thanks.
> 
> The problem is that you are accessing the variable BEFORE the box has
> been put up and the user clicking on it. That doesn't happen until the
> mainloop() call. You need to delay the opening and reading of the file
> till the filedialog has been used and returned.
> 
> Perhaps on_openfile could open and read the file.

Ok. Then how do I access the content of the file from outside the 
function? How can I access return value?
Thanks.