hola folks i'm new at python, and fighting my way through tkinter.  using 2.7 in 2010

so here's what i have:

import Tkinter,tkFileDialog

root = Tkinter.Tk()
file = tkFileDialog.askopenfile(parent=root,mode='rb',title='Choose a file')
if file != None:
    data = file.read()
    file.close()
    print "I got %d bytes from this file." % len(data)
    print data
root.mainloop()

for opening a file.  works great.

but all i have found for saving a file is this:

import Tkinter,tkFileDialog

myFormats = [
    ('text','*.txt'),
    ]

root = Tkinter.Tk()
fileName = tkFileDialog.asksaveasfilename(parent=root,filetypes=myFormats ,title="Save the file as...")
if len(fileName ) > 0:  
    print "Now saving"

root.mainloop()

but no luck.  it says it's saving (lol, 'cause i told it too) but it does not save anything.  i've finegeled it many ways with my itty bitty knowlege set but to no avail.  can anyone point me in the correct direction? 

The second dialog just returns the file path of where you want the data to be saved to. You still need to write it to the file.

f = open(filepath, 'w')
f.write(data)
f.close()

If you are working with current versions of Poser you may find wxPython preferable to Tkinter. Also note that Poser has its own built in file dialogs.

Hope that helps.

gratzi! phil