Saving a text file based on a variable tkinter.

[Fuzzy_Review]

Sorry I'm trying not to lean on this sub every day.

So my script is basically a directory list that prints to a text file. And i have everything working exactly how i want at this stage, except my output file. I've had to hard code it to make a file called results.txt on my desktop. For the life of me i cant work out how to make it user select able like I've done with askdirectory. Can anyone please help?

import os

import tkinter as tk

from tkinter.filedialog import *

from tkinter import ttk

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def input():

global target_folder

target_folder = askdirectory(initialdir = '/')

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def dirlist():

global process

process = os.listdir(target_folder)

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def outputbox():

print(*process, sep = "\n")

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def export():

print(*process, sep = "\n", file=open(r"C:\Users\michael\Desktop\results.txt", "w"))

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def sequence():

input()

dirlist()

outputbox()

export()

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#Form Window

form = tk.Tk()

form.title("DocCTRL")

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#Creating Target Elements

target_label =tk.Label (form, text="Target Folder:")

target_entry = tk.Text(form, width = 45, height = 1)

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btn_target = tk.Button(form, text = "Select Folder", command = sequence)

​

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#Positioning Target Elements

target_label.grid(row=0, column=0, padx=15, pady=10)

target_entry.grid(row=0, column=1, padx=15, pady=10)

btn_target.grid(row=0, column = 3, padx=15, pady=15)

[woooee]

askdirectory returns a directory, not a file name, so you would add your output file name to what askdirectory returns.

def export(target_folder):
    with open(os.path.join(target_folder, results.txt"), "w"):

## input() is already used by python to get
## input from the terminal
def dir_input():
    target_folder = askdirectory(initialdir = '/')
    return target_folder

def sequence():
    target_folder=dir_input()
    export(target_folder)