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I have the following code where I'm trying to allow the user to open a text file and once the user has selected it, I would like the code to read it (this isn't a finished block of code, just to show what I'm after). However, I'm having difficulties either using tkFileDialog.askopenfilename and adding 'mode='rb'' or using the code like below and using read where it produces an error. Does anyone know how I can arrange to do this as I don't wish to have to type Tkinter.'module' for each item such as Menu and Listbox. Beginner to Tkinter and a bit confused! Thanks for the help! import sys from Tkinter import * import tkFileDialog from tkFileDialog import askopenfilename # Open dialog box fen1 = Tk() # Create window fen1.title("Optimisation") # menu1 = Menu(fen1) def open(): filename = askopenfilename(filetypes=[("Text files","*.txt")]) txt = filename.read() print txt filename.close() fen1.mainloop() Obviously the error I'm getting here is: AttributeError: 'unicode' object has no attribute 'read' I don't understand how to use the askopen and also be able to read the file I'm opening.

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