Default location while open an Excel file

[Johnny]

On Oct 20, 11:24 am, Gabriel Genellina <gagsl... at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
> At Friday 20/10/2006 00:08, Johnny wrote:
>
> >doc.Workbooks.Open(excelFile, ReadOnly=True)
>
> >    But the problem is when I only pass the filename to the Open()
> >method, and of course the file is in the current directory, it will
> >throw an exception that the specified file can't be found. When I use
> >os.path.abspath(excelFile) instead, it works. But I do know that
> >somebody can only pass a filename, and no exception is raised. Now I
> >wonder is that because the "somebody" happen to put the file on the
> >default location of the Open() method? If so, does any one know the
> >default location?Why don't you want to use an absolute path? It's safe, will always
> work... What if Excel, for whatever reason, decides to start the Open
> dialog pointing to another location? What if your script does not
> have permission to write on such location?

Yes, I agree and willing to use abstract path. I only wonder what's
happending inside this method so that I can get more understanding of
the problem caused by passing an relative path in. :)

Regards, 
Johnny