I'm just learning Python, and I've run into trouble trying to change
directory to the windows My Documents directory. There's likely a better
way to do this, but this is what I've tried so far:
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from tkinter import Tk
from tkinter.filedialog import askopenfilename
import os
Tk().withdraw()
sourcedir = os.environ['HOME']+"/Documents/"
os.chdir(sourcedir)
src = askopenfilename()
if src == '' :
sys.exit()
fin = open(src, mode='r')
## do stuff
fin.close()
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When this is run from IDLE, it works fine. But when I double click on
the saved file to run it, it quits without ever showing the open file
dialog box, and doesn't show any error message.
The problem is with the os.environ['HOME'] call. If I comment it out
(and fix up the surrounding code with an absolute path) then it runs.
But then it won't work properly for other users.
Interestingly enough, when I moved this to a Mac so I could post to
Usenet, I discovered it works fine on the Mac. Only Windows seems to be
the problem. Windows 7.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
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