Re: Verifying My Troublesome Linkage Claim between Python and Win7

2010-03-02 Thread alex23
"W. eWatson" wrote: > My claim is that if one creates a program in a folder that reads a file > in the folder it and then copies it to another folder, it will read  the > data file in the first folder, and not a changed file in the new folder. > I'd appreciate it if some w7 users could try this, a

Re: Verifying My Troublesome Linkage Claim between Python and Win7

2010-03-01 Thread W. eWatson
On 2/23/2010 6:04 PM, Aahz wrote: In article, W. eWatson wrote: My claim is that if one creates a program in a folder that reads a file in the folder it and then copies it to another folder, it will read the data file in the first folder, and not a changed file in the new folder. I'd apprecia

Re: Verifying My Troublesome Linkage Claim between Python and Win7

2010-02-23 Thread Rick Dooling
On Feb 23, 1:08 pm, Gib Bogle wrote: > It isn't useful to respond to a serious question with OS bigotry. Okay, I'll go with what Aahz said: > I've seen similar issues on Win7. > AFAIK, this has nothing to do with Python. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Verifying My Troublesome Linkage Claim between Python and Win7

2010-02-23 Thread Aahz
In article , W. eWatson wrote: > >My claim is that if one creates a program in a folder that reads a file >in the folder it and then copies it to another folder, it will read the >data file in the first folder, and not a changed file in the new folder. >I'd appreciate it if some w7 users could

Re: Verifying My Troublesome Linkage Claim between Python and Win7

2010-02-23 Thread Gib Bogle
W. eWatson wrote: On 2/23/2010 11:14 AM, Gib Bogle wrote: W. eWatson wrote: On 2/23/2010 8:26 AM, Rick Dooling wrote: No telling what Windows will do. :) I am a mere hobbyist programmer, but I think real programmers will tell you that it is a bad habit to use relative paths. Use absolute path

Re: Verifying My Troublesome Linkage Claim between Python and Win7

2010-02-23 Thread W. eWatson
On 2/23/2010 11:14 AM, Gib Bogle wrote: W. eWatson wrote: On 2/23/2010 8:26 AM, Rick Dooling wrote: No telling what Windows will do. :) I am a mere hobbyist programmer, but I think real programmers will tell you that it is a bad habit to use relative paths. Use absolute paths instead and remov

Re: Verifying My Troublesome Linkage Claim between Python and Win7

2010-02-23 Thread Gib Bogle
W. eWatson wrote: On 2/23/2010 8:26 AM, Rick Dooling wrote: No telling what Windows will do. :) I am a mere hobbyist programmer, but I think real programmers will tell you that it is a bad habit to use relative paths. Use absolute paths instead and remove all doubt. http://docs.python.org/libr

Re: Verifying My Troublesome Linkage Claim between Python and Win7

2010-02-23 Thread Gib Bogle
Rick Dooling wrote: No telling what Windows will do. :) It isn't useful to respond to a serious question with OS bigotry. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Verifying My Troublesome Linkage Claim between Python and Win7

2010-02-23 Thread W. eWatson
On 2/23/2010 8:26 AM, Rick Dooling wrote: No telling what Windows will do. :) I am a mere hobbyist programmer, but I think real programmers will tell you that it is a bad habit to use relative paths. Use absolute paths instead and remove all doubt. http://docs.python.org/library/os.path.html R

Re: Verifying My Troublesome Linkage Claim between Python and Win7

2010-02-23 Thread Rick Dooling
No telling what Windows will do. :) I am a mere hobbyist programmer, but I think real programmers will tell you that it is a bad habit to use relative paths. Use absolute paths instead and remove all doubt. http://docs.python.org/library/os.path.html RD -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinf

Verifying My Troublesome Linkage Claim between Python and Win7

2010-02-23 Thread W. eWatson
In the last day, I posted a message titled "What's Going on between Python and win7?" I'd appreciate it if someone could verify my claim. A sample program to do this is below. I'm using IDLE in Win7 with Py 2.5. My claim is that if one creates a program in a folder that reads a file in the fol