Verifying My Troublesome Linkage Claim between Python and Win7

Gib Bogle g.bogle at auckland.no.spam.ac.nz
Tue Feb 23 14:14:04 EST 2010


W. eWatson wrote:
> On 2/23/2010 8:26 AM, Rick Dooling wrote:
>> No telling what Windows will do. :)
>>
>> I am a mere hobbyist programmer, but I think real programmers will
>> tell you that it is a bad habit to use relative paths. Use absolute
>> paths instead and remove all doubt.
>>
>> http://docs.python.org/library/os.path.html
>>
>> RD
> You may be right. The actual 300 line program just reads the folder 
> without specifying any path. I'm not that familiar with os path, but 
> have seen it used.

How do you invoke the program?  Do you use a Command Prompt window?



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