Verifying My Troublesome Linkage Claim between Python and Win7

[alex23]

"W. eWatson" <wolftra... at invalid.com> wrote:
> My claim is that if one creates a program in a folder that reads a file
> in the folder it and then copies it to another folder, it will read  the
> data file in the first folder, and not a changed file in the new folder.
> I'd appreciate it if some w7 users could try this, and let me know what
> they find.

On a fresh install of Win7 Ultimate, I created your program & the text
file in one folder, then copied the program both using ctrl-c/ctrl-v
and later ctrl-drag-&-drop. In both cases, the copied program *did
not* refer to the text file when executed:

D:\projects>a
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:\projects\a.py", line 1, in <module>
    track_file = open("verify.txt")
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'verify.txt'

Whatever you seem to think you did, you didn't, or you're not
providing enough detail on what you did to repeat the behaviour.

I do agree with the sentiment that this isn't a Python issue.