running IDLE from another program?

John Salerno johnjsal at NOSPAMgmail.com
Sat Apr 1 19:22:33 EST 2006


Kent Johnson wrote:
> John Salerno wrote:
>> Kent Johnson wrote:
>>
>>> The working directory must be wrong. Try calling Python directly with 
>>> full paths:
>>>
>>> C:\Python24\pythonw C:\Python24\Lib\idlelib\idle.pyw -r C:\path\to\myprog.py
>>
>> Perfect! Thank you so much!
>>
>> I put this line in the command line field, and I left "working 
>> directory" empty because I'm not sure what goes there. Should it be the 
>> main python directory, or the directory of the file being run? Either 
>> way, it seems to work without a working directory.
> 
> Great! I would set the working directory to the dir containing your 
> program. That way if you have multiple modules in the program you will 
> be able to import them without any trouble.
> 
> Kent

Ok, thanks again! I love how this works now! :)



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