tkinter file dialog pattern matching

Laura Creighton <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.tkinter
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
Somebody on the tutor mailing list wants to match
"all files and direcories in this directory that do not start
with a ."

The filetypes option seems only to want patterns to match, not
patterns to exclude.  Is my pattern matching magic just off, or
is there no way to exclude things in a tkFileDialog?

puzzled,
Laura
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