On Jun 12, 9:09 am, "Richard Brodie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "T. Crane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > As an aside, I forgot to mention above that I'm using Windows XP.  Any 
> > other ideas or
> > possible reasons that it would not choose my script location as the default 
> > location to
> > save something?
>
> If you open a DOS window and run Python from there, it will write the files
> in whatever directory you were in when you typed the command.
>
> If you are running Python directly from Windows, or from an IDE, it's up
> to the OS or the IDE to decide what your default directory is. Often it
> will be the home directory from your user profile.

Oops. My bad. I didn't know that the IDE behaved differently than the
DOS window.

Mike

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