[Pythonmac-SIG] More newbie questions

[Rodney Somerstein]

Thanks for the quick response about generating .pyc files. I noticed 
that when I do an import, it seems to generate the .pyc file. Simply 
running the file via python doesn't produce the .pyc file. Since my 
programs are tiny right now anyway, the load speed isn't really an 
issue. I'll not worry about this right now as suggested.

This next one is a bit more of an issue, though. How can I get 
imports to work from the command line in IDLE or PythonIDE? I can't 
seem to figure out any way to set the current working directory. 
Trying to put the full path on the command line simply results in an 
error. This might be simple, but it is stumping me and the limited 
documentation doesn't seem to help. Do I have to set the sys.path to 
include my scripts directory (/Users/rodneys/Documents/python)? If 
so, how do I go about this?

Hopefully I'll be moving on to some actual interesting programming 
questions in the near future.

Thanks,

-Rodney