Re: Multiple file select with tkFileDialog passes back 'decorated' strings (sometimes)

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Subject	Re: Multiple file select with tkFileDialog passes back 'decorated' strings (sometimes)
Date	Mon, 23 May 2011 21:41:06 -0300
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En Mon, 23 May 2011 10:00:53 -0300, Alex van der Spek <zdoor@xs4all.nl>
escribió:

> I switched from Mark Hammonds pywin32 extensions for file choosers as  
> the multiselect there seems to crash on me when selecting more than a  
> few dozen. Using Tk now. Works well but the resulting string passed back  
> seems to 'decorated' when the files are on local disk and not decorated  
> when retrieved over a USB interface from an external disk?
>
> I do this:
>
>> From local disk I get back:
>
> '{file1.bin} {file2.bin}'
>
>> From external disk I get back:
>
> 'file1.bin file2.bin'
>
> I can handle/parse both, not an issue but it raises the question: Are  
> these the only two possibilities? Is it the same across platforms (I use  
> Python 2.7 on Win Vista)?

An old bug. See http://bugs.python.org/issue5712 for a workaround.

-- 
Gabriel Genellina

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Multiple file select with tkFileDialog passes back 'decorated' strings (sometimes) "Alex van der Spek" <zdoor@xs4all.nl> - 2011-05-23 15:00 +0200
  Re: Multiple file select with tkFileDialog passes back 'decorated' strings (sometimes) "Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-py2@yahoo.com.ar> - 2011-05-23 21:41 -0300

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