browse item and assign file to variable PYSIDE

[Gigux]

hello,

I would like to parse a file using a GUI dialog window rather than writing the path directly; so I am using pyside to implement the window. I got the code to browse a file and import it's content as a text string; what I would need is instead to assign the file (or actually its path) I have chosen with the window to an object so that I can use another function to parse the file more properly. 

for example, I would need to select the file with the window, then assign the path, let's say,

> /home/gigiux/Documents/myFile.raw

to the variable 'x' and then parse with, for instance, 

> parseFun(x, type=raw)

How should I define the function? So far the code I wrote for browsing the file is:

    def openFile(self):
     self.fileName, self.filterName = QFileDialog.getOpenFileName(self)
     self.textEdit.setText(open(self.fileName).read())

thanks

[nilamo]

How should I define the function?

     self.textEdit.setText(open(self.fileName).read())

If you're going to put the contents of the file in the gui that's fine, but you still should close the file after reading it.

[Gigux]

Hmm, and I would I do that? and more importantly, how do I do the assignment? Tx

[nilamo]

with open(self.fileName) as file:
   self.textEdit.setText(file.read())