Question

I’m looking for a cross-platform way of making my Python script process a file’s path by implementing a drag n drop method. At the moment I manually go to the terminal and use the sys.argv method:

python myscript.py /Python/myfile.xls

However this is slow and “techy”. Ideally I would a quick and interactive way of allowing a file be processed by my Python script. I primarily need this to work for Mac but cross-platform would be better.

Answer 1

It’d be easiest to just write a small GUI with Tkinter or something similar and have the user select a file from within the GUI. Something along these lines:

import tkFileDialog
f = tkFileDialog.askopenfilename()
# Go on from there; f is a handle to the file that the user picked

I’m not aware of any cross platform methods to get a script to work with drag and drop, however. This is probably easier, though.