[CentralOH] Idle MacPython 2.6.4 / sys.Path

[Mark Erbaugh]

On Dec 30, 2009, at 9:40 AM, m g wrote:

> import sys
> import os
> 
> sys.path.insert(0, os.getcwd())
> 
> 
> Having that at the top of the python script would work but is probably
> less than ideal.

Thanks for the reply.

Actually, another problem is the the current working directory is not set to the desired directory either. 

I found another thing. If I open a terminal window in the desired folder (I use a ShellHere utility I found somewhere) and launch Idle from the command line, the current directory is added to sys.path, but the current working directory is still not set to the current folder.

I guess I'm kind of spoiled by Windows and Linux because that's what happens there: the directory containing the .py file is set to the current directory and that directory is added to sys.path.  It''s very convenient for working with ad-hoc scripts.

Mark