# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
Created on Tue Oct  4 17:09:28 2016

@author: dlivelyb
"""

import tkinter as tk
import tkinter.filedialog as tkfd

# next not important for file dialogs
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# *** use tkinter to open a file dialog box to select file ***
root = tk.Tk()
root.withdraw()
file_path_string = tkfd.askopenfilename()

file=open(file_path_string,"r")
fl=list(file)
file.close()