On 07/12/2025 00:54, Thomas Passin wrote:
On 12/6/2025 6:49 PM, Em wrote:
For at least the last 10 years. I have been using double click on the
filename (or by shortcut) to use the program. It tracks the Insulin
injections for me and creates/updates several text files. I have been
using
IDLE for editing on WIN10 computers. No issues....
When I copied the file to the new WIN11 computer and double-click on the
filename, it fails without warning or explanation. In WIN11, I can
open the
file with IDLE and use F5 to run it successfully.
I was told to try "Open with Python" and it fails on both the WIN10 and
WIN11 computers. I do not see the option for this program to Run as
Administrator on either computer. I have seen/used Run as Administrator
elsewhere on the WIN10 computer.
I created a .py program with the lines of code:
pause = input("Start")
Starter = open("HLY-LOG5.txt","w")
pause = input("End")
and can follow all six of the techniques to run as mentioned above.
Three
situations, the program runs, and three have the program fail.
Exactly the
same results as with my medical program.
Has my short, three line, program worked on your system?
You should have sent this message to the group, not just me. Yes, your
program created the file but not when I double-clicked on the file
name. As I explained in my last post, that's because in Windows 11
when double-clicking, the working directory is the system's Windows
directory, not the one your program is in. In Win 11, you don't have
access to it as an ordinary user. Anyway even if you did, you don't
want to write your file there.
There's a simple solution if you want to be able to launch by double
clicking the file. Actually, there are at least four ways to go.
1. Run your program using a batch file. in the batch file, cd to your
target directory before launching your program. The batch file needs
to be somewhere on your path, or alternatively you can put a shortcut
to it on your desktop.
If you don't know how to do any of those things, ask for help.
2. Make your Python program change directories to the target directory
before writing the file. I think someone already posted a code snippet
showing how to do that. If not, and you don't know how, ask for help.
3. Hard-code the full path to your target file. Then it won't matter
what working directory is in effect.
4.Create a shortcut for your .py file on the desktop. Then open the
Properties dialog for the shortcut. In the "Shortcut" tab you can put
the desired working directory. Now when you double click the
shortcut, it will open in the right directory.
[snip]
I always find a script's location with `__file__`.
If "HLY-LOG5.txt" is in the same folder as the script, then its path is
given by:
from os.path import dirname, join
log_path = join(dirname(__file__), "HLY-LOG5.txt")
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