[SciPy-User] matlab "uigetfile" analog for ipython

[David Baddeley]

It will depend on which GUI framework you are using. Hjalmar and Antonio have given answers for tk and Qt respectively. Under wx you'd use wx.FileDialog

e.g. (copy and pasted from a file I had open hence the slightly irrelevant message and wildcard):

import wx
fdialog = wx.FileDialog(None, 'Open 3D scene ...', wildcard='*.stl', style=wx.OPEN)
succ = fdialog.ShowModal()
        
if (succ == wx.ID_OK):
   fname = fdialog.GetPath().encode()

If you're using an iPython notebook in a browser (which it sounds like you might be), you're also going to need to tell iPython to start your gui backend of choice using a gui 'magic' - eg: %gui wx

cheers,
David


On Tuesday, 15 July 2014 6:22 AM, Antonino Ingargiola <tritemio at gmail.com> wrote:



Hi,

I use to define a function that uses Qt (either PySide or PyQt) to open a dialog:

try:
    from PySide import QtCore, QtGui
except ImportError:
    from PyQt4 import QtCore, QtGui

def gui_fname(dir=None):
    """Select a file via a dialog and returns the file name.
    """
    if dir is None: dir ='./'
    fname = QtGui.QFileDialog.getOpenFileName(None, "Select data file...", 
            dir, filter="All files (*)")
    return fname[0]


Antonino



On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 4:27 AM, Hjalmar Turesson <hturesson at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,
>
>I used tkFileDialog for that type of thing.
>
>Hjalmar
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>On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Antonelli Maria Rosaria <maria-rosaria.antonelli at curie.fr> wrote:
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>Hi, 
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>>Is there any way to select interactively the folder/directory where are stored the data that I want to analyse in my notebook.
>>Matlab command should be 'uigetfile'. This open a window and I select the file I want from this window.
>>
>>
>>Thank you very much.
>>Best,
>>Rosa
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