[pythonuser]

Hi Friends,

I am using Tkinter for gui. Actuallly I want to open a file and extract it in same folder where my file is present.
The python script is kept at some other location. Whenever I run the script and browse to my required file it extract it in folder where my script is present. Please find the attached my code.

#!/usr/bin/python 
import subprocess 
import os 
from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET 
from Tkinter import * 
from tkFileDialog import askopenfilename  
def main():          
   root=Tk() 	
   global fname         	
   fname =     askopenfilename(filetypes[("allfiles","*"),"pythonfiles","*.py")])  
   print fname   main() 	  
### unzip .fzz file 
subprocess.call(["unzip" ,fname])

[admoore]

When a python script runs, it has a "current working directory", which is where any file-level operations are going to default to; by default it's going to be the directory where the script is.

If you want to unzip these files to a specific location, you have two options:

- use os.chdir to change the current working directory to where you want these files to go.

- tack on some argument to the unzip command to specify the output location

You can determine the directory of the selected file using os.path.dirname().