Let’s search for png files in all our hard drives, getting a list of them that we can click to open them into our default image viewer. This is the code, followed by a video that explains how it works.
You can find this and other code in here: github repository with my utilities.
import tkinter as tk import os def searchfiles(extension='.txt', folder='H:\\'): "insert all files in the listbox" container = [] for r, d, f in os.walk(folder): for file in f: if file.endswith(extension): container.append(os.path.join(r, file)) for file in container: lb.insert(0, file) def open_file(): os.startfile(lb.get(lb.curselection()[0])) def clear(): lb.delete(0, tk.END) root = tk.Tk() root.geometry("400x400") # ENTRY FOR THE FOLDER TO START THE SEARCH FROM lab_en = tk.Label(root, text="Start folder") lab_en.pack() en = tk.Entry(root) en.insert(0, "H:\\") en.pack() # BUTTON TO START SEARCH bt = tk.Button(root, text="Search", command=lambda:searchfiles('.png', en.get())) bt.pack() bt2 = tk.Button(root, text="Clear", command=clear) bt2.pack() lb = tk.Listbox(root) lb.pack(fill="both", expand=1) lb.bind("<Double-Button>", lambda x: open_file()) root.mainloop()
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