Using the name of file select by user into a dictionary in python

August 30, 2024

I have a basic code, and essentially what I am trying to do is ask user to select a file. The goal is to save the name of that file as a "value", and use it into a dictionary.

The code is below:

from tkinter import filedialog as fd

def select_study_file():
    study = fd.askopenfilename(initialdir=cur_dir, title='Select Study case')
    study = os.path.basename(study)
select_study_file()

config_dic = {"study_case" : study}

The expected output is:

config_dic = {"study_case" : "Name_of_the_file_selected}

>Solution :

You have a few errors in your code
you can try something like this

import os
from tkinter import filedialog as fd

def select_study_file():
    study = fd.askopenfilename(initialdir=".", title="Select Study case")
    return os.path.basename(study)

study_file = select_study_file()
config_dic = {"study_case": study_file}

print(config_dic)