Python 3 minor irritation

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:46:45 -0300, Alf P. Steinbach <alfps at start.no>  
escribió:

> Oh sorry, now I see what you mean. I read it too literally. You mean  
> that at script startup __file__ is a valid relative or absolute path to  
> the script.
>
> But anyways, Windows Explorer doesn't change the current directory to  
> that of the associated program, at least not in Windows XP.

But the associated program might change the current directory - that's not  
the case with the default associations created by the Python installer,  
but one should verify this.
To the OP: please create this small test script

import os
print("curdir=", os.getcwd())
print("__file__=", __file__)
input()

and post what you get when you double-click on it.

Also, from the command line, execute:

D:\temp>reg query HKCR\.py

! REG.EXE VERSION 3.0

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.py
     <Sin nombre>        REG_SZ  Python.File
     Content Type        REG_SZ  text/plain

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.py\PersistentHandler

D:\temp>reg query HKCR\Python.File\shell\open\command

! REG.EXE VERSION 3.0

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Python.File\shell\open\command
     <Sin nombre>        REG_SZ  "D:\Apps\Python26\python.exe" "%1" %*


The first command says that files ending with .py are of type  
"Python.File", the second one says which command is executed to open a  
"Python.File" file.

-- 
Gabriel Genellina