Thanks for the information on IDLE. > As for your question, I couldn't quite understand what you're trying > to do. In general, you can have the script use os.chdir() to go to the > relevant directory and then open() the file, or you can use open() > directly with a relative/full path to it. (This question isn't IDLE > specific in any way, unless I misunderstood...)
I should have been clearer about what I'm trying to do. I have approximately 100 directories, each corresponding to an "incident" (I won't say what type of "incident" here). Each directory has many data files on the incident, and the structure of all the directories is the same (i.e., each has files of the same name). One of those files in an input file that I wish to "replay" through my program, then the results are recorded in an output data file. To replay one incident, I would normally go to the directory for that case and execute my program. I can specify the input and output files explicitly, but I virtually never need to do so because they default to the same file name in each directory. I also have a script that can replay all 100 cases automatically. I would like to do the same sort of thing with IDLE. I don't want to have to specify the input and output files explicitly using absolute pathnames from outside the directory for the incident. That would be horrendously cumbersome after a few times. I want to just cd to a directory and execute my program. But in my first few tries, it seems that I need to be in the directory that contains the source code -- not the directory that contains the data. Am I missing something? Thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
