On 9/23/12 3:33 AM, Ned Deily wrote:
This appears to a difference in behavior between Carbon Tk 8.4 and Cocoa Tk 8.5 on OS X. The python.org 32-bit-only installers are built to link with the former and, with 8.4, the Open file dialog box does have the file-type filter menu as Hans describes. The python.org 64-/32-bit installers link with the newer Cocoa Tk 8.5 and, with it, the Open file dialog box does not have the filter menu. I'm not sure there is anything that IDLE or Tkinter can do about that; any change may need to be by the Tcl/Tk folks. But it would be good if you would open an issue at bugs.python.org so we can follow up on it.
It's a function of NSOpenPanel, the underlying native dialog that supports the "open file" dialog on OS X. It doesn't have a "file filter" capability, and so it will only recognize hard-coded types that are passed to it, cf. py and txt files. "dat" isn't recognized, I tested it out. There's nothing to do here; it's an aspect of the native dialog.
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