Trouble with IDLE in Windows

[vincent wehren]

"Rob Renaud" <rpgnmets at aol.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:3759308d.0302012211.753c990f at posting.google.com...
> I am trying to port (ensure it works, hopefully produce a binary with
> py2exe) a python program I wrote in Linux to Windows.  When I run the
> python file that includes the main program from IDLE (Ctrl + F5),
> python barfs saying it cannot import a file in the same directory as
> the main source file.
>
> How can I fix this?  Is it possibly related to not having an
> __init__.py file?

Make sure that you start IDLE from within the directory your main file
resides in (you can try right-clicking > Edit with IDLE), effectively making
it your working directory, or add that directory to sys.path (e.g. by adding
sys.path.append(".") to your main file).

Kind regards,
Vincent Wehren