How to store the path of a directory from tkinter and then use it later?

Question

I have wrote this code until now but it throws an error saying 'TypeError: stat: path should be string, bytes, os.PathLike or integer, not _io.TextIOWrapper'. I have tried lot of things like tweaking the path from the txt like - "G:/xyz/xyz", "G://xyz//xyz" or r"G:/xyz/xyz", or r"G://xyz//xyz".

import shutil
a = open('file1.txt', 'r')
a1.read()
a.close()

b= open ('file2.txt', 'r')
b1 = b.read()
b.close()

shutil.move(src=a1, dst=b1)

Answer 1

To answer your Question in the title: Use filedialog from tkinter to get a path by the user and store it as a variable.

import tkinter as tk
from tkinter import filedialog as fd

root = tk.Tk()

UserPath = fd.askdirectory()
print(UserPath)

root.mainloop()

to read the lines with pathlib you need to do it like this:

from pathlib import Path

path = Path('path_to_file')
file = path
with file.open() as f:
    print(f.readline())

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