File explorer using python using Tkinter module File Explorer in Python using the Tkinter module. What is basically a file explorer? A file explorer is nothing but an application that is used to manage certain files and folders on your device where we can open, edit, copy, delete and move the files and folders on the networks or the attached disks. Here we are going to build a GUI-based project File Explorer in Python using Tkinter, shutil, filedialog, and OS modules and going to understand all the necessary steps one by one to manage the files and folders in the file explorer or file manager.