Shane wrote: > I'm new to Python, so I'll try to be clear about my problem. > > I'm using Python 3.1 (latest stable version from python.org) on > Windows 7. > I have a program using tkinter for UI, and it works properly from both > pything GUI shell, and running from command prompt, EXCEPT that I have > a menu command to invoke tkinter.filedialog.askopenfile, and it fails > because it says: > > file = tkinter.filedialog.askopenfilename() > AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'filedialog' > > I made a simple test program: > > import tkinter > print (dir(tkinter)) > > when I run this from the GUI shell, the results include filedialog, > but from the command prompt, it does not (also missing other > attributes, such as messagebox). > > All the UI widgets work properly. > My best hypothesis at this point is that from the GUI shell its using > the source code under lib\tkinter (where there is a filedialog.py), > but from the command shell it is using the compiled dll, and that > doesn't export filedialog for some reason.
It's not that complicated; idle and your module share the same python interpreter and the same tkinter package. Idle needs a file dialog, too, and somewhere in its code there must be a import tkinter.filedialog statement which of course isn't executed when you run your script from the command line. To fix your script simply add the above import statement. It is a bit unfortunate that your editor has side effects on your program, and I recommend that you never trust the result of importing a module from within idle's shell completely. Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
