You could pass the directory in as an optional extra argument
to the script. Alternately, you might accept either a bare file name
or a full path.
Roger
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"Thomas Pfaff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Colin J. Williams schrieb:
>> Thomas Pfaff wrote:
>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> I started using the nice Pythonwin IDE together with Python 2.3 (I have
>>> come to prefer its editor to IDLE).
>>> My problem is, that when I want to run a script in the debugger, I can
>>> give the script name and arguments, but I can't tell it in which
>>> directory it should run.
>>>
>>> I googled this group but didn't find anything helpful so far.
>>>
>>> I could use some os.chdir in my code, but that's ugly and I neither want
>>> to copy the script around to the places where I would like to test it.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance
>>>
>>>
>>> Thomas
>>
>> Thomas,
>>
>> When you have initiated PythonWin, try opening (^O) the file you wish to
>> debug. By selecting the file directory and file you have chosen the
>> current working directory for the file.
>>
>> Alternatively, in the Windows Explorer, try right clicking on the py
>> file you wish to debug. One of the options given is likely to be
>> PythonWin.
>>
>> Colin W.
>
> Well this is what I do not want to do.
> I want to have the script in some folder /source/myscript.py but run it
> on data in e.g. /path/to/data/ like I would do on the commandline with
>
> $ cd /path/to/data
> $ pypthon /source/myscript.py local-file.dat
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Thomas
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