From 85f48e3b9b071150623d9f1af56d7665acd6d225 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Martin=20v=2E=20L=C3=B6wis?= <martin@v.loewis.de>
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 21:04:22 +0000
Subject: Convert path objects to strings in askdirectory. Fixes #852314.
 Backported to 2.3.

---
 Lib/lib-tk/tkFileDialog.py | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Lib/lib-tk/tkFileDialog.py b/Lib/lib-tk/tkFileDialog.py
index 8419718..c2c661c 100644
--- 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
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