[issue38974] using filedialog.askopenfilename() freezes python 3.8

Daniel Preston added the comment: Just tried to do that and found out that IDLE also crashes when opening a new python file, not just when using that code. Maybe it's a problem just with my computer? I am running python on Windows with an AMD Ryzen 5 processor with 8GB RAM if it helps.

[issue38974] using filedialog.askopenfilename() freezes python 3.8

Matthew Barnett added the comment: I've just tried it on Windows 10 with Python 3.8 64-bit and Python 3.8 32-bit without issue. -- nosy: +mrabarnett ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue38974] using filedialog.askopenfilename() freezes python 3.8

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[issue38974] using filedialog.askopenfilename() freezes python 3.8

Paul Moore added the comment: Can you provide a minimal, self-contained, example of a program that demonstrates this behaviour in 3.8, but works in 3.7. It's not really possible to determine what the issue might be without a means of reproducing the problem. -- components: +Tkinter -

[issue38974] using filedialog.askopenfilename() freezes python 3.8

New submission from Daniel Preston : I am using Tkinter in my program, and at a point I use a button to open a file by running a function with the following code: def UploadAction(event=None): global filename filename = filedialog.askopenfilename() filename = [filename] return fi