On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 5:05 AM Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> wrote: > > A third possibility is that you made a mymodules somewhere else (such as in > your top level home directory), and later decided to put it on your Desktop to > make it easy to find/access.
I did save it in My Documents first and then moved it to my desktop. But I did not write code. I just dragged and dropped. >So you might have decided to "mv" your "mymodules" > folder into the Desktop like this: > > mv mymodules Desktop/mymodules > > which is fine. But mv has some interesting behaviour. If "mymodules" didn't > exist in Desktop, then youre "mymodules" will get moved into the Desktop. > However, if mv's final argument is an _existing_ directory, mv puts things > inside it. So if you went: > > mkdir Desktop/mymodules > mv mymodules Desktop/mymodules > > then mv would put your top level "mymodules" _inside_ the "Desktop/mymodules" > folder that already exists, producing the structure you currently have. I didn't do any of this. Could dragging and dropping have created the duplicate folder? Thanks, Tamara -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
