Default path for files

Rotwang sg552 at hotmail.co.uk
Sun Jan 24 10:49:00 EST 2010


Krister Svanlund wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Rotwang <sg552 at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>> Hi all, can anybody tell me whether there's a way to change the default
>> location for files to be opened by open()? I'd like to be able to create
>> files somewhere other than my Python folder without having to write the full
>> path in the filename every time. Sorry if this is a stupid question, I don't
>> know much about programming.
> 
> Check out http://docs.python.org/library/os.html and the function
> chdir it is what you are looking for.

Thank you. So would adding

import os
os.chdir(<path>)

to site.py (or any other module which is automatically imported during 
initialisation) change the default location to <path> every time I used 
Python?



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