Specify Input File in SPSS Statistics

Question

In older versions of SPSS, one could ask for the path to a file using a syntax similar to this:

filename = GetFilePath("*.txt","txt", ,"Specify input file",0)

How can I achieve the same result using recent versions of SPSS, that rely on Python?

Answer 1

I found the answer. So similarly to how the VBA in .SBS script works, Python can use a library directly from SPSS to show a file input dialog.

BEGIN PROGRAM.
from Tkinter import Tk
from tkFileDialog import askopenfilename

Tk().withdraw()
filename = askopenfilename()
print(filename)
END PROGRAM.