Default path for files

[Günther Dietrich]

Rotwang <sg552 at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

>> 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?

Don't change the library modules. It would catch you anytime when you 
expect it least.

See for the environment variable PYTHONSTARTUP and the associated 
startup file.



Best regards,

Günther