[nige777]

Ok, I'm getting somewhere here I think. Here's what I am using now:

def ChooseFile():
	"""You can find documentation for CreateFileDialog at the following site:
		http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/ActivePython/2.5/pywin32/win32ui__CreateFileDialog_meth.html"""
	parent = win32ui.CreateWindowFromHandle(viz.window.getHandle())
	dlg = win32ui.CreateFileDialog(1,'','',0,'',parent)
	if dlg.DoModal() == win32con.IDOK:
		file = dlg.GetFileName()
		inFileName  = dlg.GetPathName()
		print file
		print inFileName

- Thanks farshi

However, what I would really like to do is open the selected file, so I tried adding:

		FILE = open(file, 'r')
		
		for line in FILE:
			print line

- but all I get is

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So my question is - what am I doing wrong here, I just want a participant to be able to select a file which is then read in / parsed into useful chunks of data.

Also when exiting winviz after running this I get a - "winviz.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." from windoze