[Pythonmac-SIG] Using getwcd() in a frozen app

[Christopher Barker]

Smith, Jeff wrote:
> I am using py2app 0.3.6 on Mac OX 10.5 and after I freeze a simple 
> command line tool, os.getcwd() returns the location where the 
> application binary lives and not the directory the application is run 
> from.  Is there expected behavior

Yes. The idea is that with a GUI app, the working dir is poorly defined, 
so this can be useful.

> and if so, is there a workaround for this?

Hmmm. Py2app really isn't designed for command line apps -- how are you 
launching it?

But in any case, it looks like this option may do what you want:


--no-chdir (-C)         do not change to the data directory
                         (Contents/Resources) [forced for plugins]


I found that here:

http://svn.pythonmac.org/py2app/py2app/trunk/doc/index.html#option-reference

-Chris



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