On 11/14/18, Irv Kalb <i...@furrypants.com> wrote: > > When working with data files, I tell students to put their project (their > main program and any other related files) in a folder. Then, in their calls > to "open", I tell them to just give the name of the data file e.g., > 'MyData.txt', or a path relative from the current folder, e.g., > 'MyData/DataFile.txt'. That makes things simple in a teaching environment > and works on both Macs and Windows.
I hope you provide code to change the working directory to the script directory (e.g. based on __file__, assuming it's not a frozen script). Don't let them assume that these are the same. A process can be started with any valid working directory. If you double click on a script in Explorer, it happens to set the working directory to the script directory. That's not necessarily the case for the Win+R run dialog, a shell command line, or generally any call that runs the script (e.g. system, spawnl, or WinAPI ShellExecuteEx and CreateProcess). -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
