On Jul 9, 8:31 pm, brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I use idle or a shell to execute a python script, the script > executes in the directory it is currently in (in this case, my desktop). > However, when using GNOME and right clicking the py script and selecting > 'open with python', the execution occurs in my home directory, not my > desktop. > > Is there a way to force py scripts to always run within the directory > that they reside in? > > Thanks > > Brad > > /home/brad/Desktop/output - python from shell > /home/brad/Desktop/output - python from idle > /home/brad/output - python from Gnome 'right click' open with menu
Any program that runs has a concept of a "current directory". All its work is done relative to that, unless you open files with absolute paths. Don't know if there's a generic way to do what you want. (There may be, just can't think of it right now). But there are specific ways - script-specific, that is: Add these lines to the top of your script: import os os.chdir(rundir) # Replace rundir above with the absolute path (in quotes) of whatever directory you want the script to have as its current directory when it runs. Looks like GNOME is doing a chdir to your home directory (probably for convenience or security reasons) before running your script, thats why you see that behaviour. This is why I say there may not be an easy generic way to do it - because it would involve modifying all possible execution environments from which your script could be launched. E.g.: even if you modify GNOME to do what you want, how about if tomorrow someone else wants to run your script from KDE or some other window manager? these could do things differently. HTH Vasudev Ram http://www.dancingbison.com http://jugad.livejournal.com http://sourceforge.net/projects/xtopdf -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
