Convert path objects to strings in askdirectory. Fixes #852314.

diff --git a/Lib/lib-tk/tkFileDialog.py b/Lib/lib-tk/tkFileDialog.py
index 8419718acbc26e225f8f0f50f2a99b938e82870f..c2c661cbad5e59d7bfb50b88104384d2f0d33846 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/lib-tk/tkFileDialog.py
+++ b/Lib/lib-tk/tkFileDialog.py
@@ -105,6 +105,12 @@ class Directory(Dialog):
 
     def _fixresult(self, widget, result):
         if result:
+            # convert Tcl path objects to strings
+            try:
+                result = result.string
+            except AttributeError:
+                # it already is a string
+                pass
             # keep directory until next time
             self.options["initialdir"] = result
         self.directory = result # compatibility

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index b205a1547f501211f66c6f53f0d6c87ceabb6fe9..e0d5c8453a13389f3426eee61fb173297fb18263 100644 (file)
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -39,6 +39,8 @@ Core and builtins
 Extension modules
 -----------------
 
+- Bug #852314: Fix return type of tkFileDialog.askdirectory on Unix.
+
 - Bug #834676: Fix crashes when normalizing Hangul syllables.
 
 - Bug #703198: Ignore "b" and "t" in os.popen on Unix.