In article <hm0jn4$tn...@news.eternal-september.org>, W. eWatson <wolftra...@invalid.com> wrote: > >My claim is that if one creates a program in a folder that reads a file >in the folder it and then copies it to another folder, it will read the >data file in the first folder, and not a changed file in the new folder. >I'd appreciate it if some w7 users could try this, and let me know what >they find. > >My experience is that if one checks the properties of the copied file, >it will point to the original py file and execute it and not the copy.
I've no time to verify your specific claim and have no readily available proof for mine, but I've seen similar issues on Win7. AFAIK, this has nothing to do with Python. -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "Many customs in this life persist because they ease friction and promote productivity as a result of universal agreement, and whether they are precisely the optimal choices is much less important." --Henry Spencer -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
