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On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 14:10:28 -0700 (PDT), jenswaelkens@gmail.com declaimed
the following:

>I'm using the tkFileDialog-module in Python 2.7, it works fine except for one thing: when I add a title, the title isn't shown.
>
>e.g. I have this line of code:
>inputfilename=tkFileDialog.askopenfilename(defaultextension=".dat", filetypes=(("data file", "*.dat"),("All Files", "*.*") ),title='Select input file')
>
>this works fine i.e. the file selector menu opens but I expected that the text
>'Select input file' would be displayed too. Can anyone here explain me how I can achieve this?
>
	Where did you look for the title? Shows up next to the Tk logo at the
top of the window here (Win7 -- and I even started it from inside of
PythonWin <G>)

	Now to figure out how to get rid of the empty "tk" window <G> (Ah,
needed to kill PythonWin)
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