On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 05:30:49 am Wayne Watson wrote: > Ok, I'm back after a three day trip. You are correct about the use of > pronouns and a few misplaced words. I should have reread what I > wrote. I had described this in better detail elsewhere, and followed > that description with the request here probably thinking back to it. > I think I was getting a bit weary of trying to find an answer. Try > t;his. > > > Folder1 > track1.py > data1.txt > data2.txt > data3.txt > > Folder2 > track1.py > dset1.txt > dset2.txt > ... > dset8.txt > > data and dset files have the same record formats. track1.py was > copied into Folder2 with ctrl-c + ctrl-v. When I run track1.py from > folder1, it clearly has examined the data.txt files. If I run the > copy of track1.py in folder2, it clearly operates on folder1 (one) > data.txt files. This should not be.
Without seeing the code in track1.py, we cannot judge whether it should be or not. I can think of lots of reasons why it should be. For example: if you have hard-coded the path to Folder1 if you call os.chdir(Folder1) if you have changed the PATH so that Folder1 gets searched before the current directory then the behaviour you describe theoretically could happen. How are you calling track1.py? Do you do this? cd Folder2 python track1.py What if you change the second line to: python ./track1.py Are you perhaps using this? python -m track1 If you change the name of the copy from track1.py to copy_of_track1.py, and then call this: python copy_of_track1.py how does the behaviour change? > If I look at the properties of track1.py in folder2 (two), it is > pointing back to the program in folder1 (one). What? "Pointing back", as in a Shortcut? Or a symlink? If you've created a shortcut instead of a copy, I'm not surprised you are executing it in the "wrong" folder. That's what shortcuts do. -- Steven D'Aprano _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
