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When calling the
tkFileDialog.askopenfile()
method in tkinter, how do I set the default directory to the home directory of the user? Is there a way to do this independent of operating system, or is this something that the programmer has to deal with?
os.path.expanduser('~')should expand it out for you on most OSs (windows,unix)…In other words: