<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hello,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Trying to use Python (3.8) + IDLE on my MAC (10.13.6 High Sierra).<br class=""><br class="">Would appreciate help on this very basic issue :<br class=""><br class="">When I write a script and save it, IDLE wants by default to save it in ~/Documents (as listed by File > Path Browser). Is there a way to change this default location to something different ?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="225B9C58-AAA2-439F-B342-860B2BE87F2B" src="cid:2E5FA3D8-9C10-4941-B665-76D85AFEE96F@home" class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">The answers received so far from the Tutor maillist are somewhat helpful but I am still looking for more specific help, if available.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Can you help ?<br class=""><br class="">Thanks in advance.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Mats Wichmann <<a href="mailto:mats@wichmann.us" class="">mats@wichmann.us</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Re: [Tutor] Help needed configuring IDLE</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">23 November 2019 at 19:25:09 GMT+1<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="mailto:tutor@python.org" class="">tutor@python.org</a><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class=""><div class="">On 11/23/19 11:10 AM, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On 23/11/2019 16:28, Nuno Ferreira wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Trying to use Python + IDLE on my MAC.<br class="">When I write a script and save it, IDLE wants by default to save it in ~/Documents<br class=""></blockquote>I had a look at my Linux IDLE configuration files and I can't<br class="">see any way to change it. FWIW, On my system it targets my<br class="">home directory (~) rather than Documents (~/Documents).<br class="">You could try asking on the IDLE-dev mailing list,<br class="">these guys are pretty good at responding to these kinds<br class="">of issues.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">I recall from past times that you have to actually edit the code of IDLE. I don't even know where at this point; there's someplace it figures out a path by doing "expanduser" if I haven't forgotten the logic - the difference in paths between Linux and Mac is just what expanduser works out to.<br class=""><br class="">[sorry, from memory]<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Tutor maillist - <a href="mailto:Tutor@python.org" class="">Tutor@python.org</a><br class="">To unsubscribe or change subscription options:<br class=""><a href="https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor" class="">https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor</a><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>