[Pythonmac-SIG] Re: cwd and PythonLauncher problem -- a bit more info

[Chris Barker]

Bob Ippolito wrote:

> GUI apps in 
> OS X always have a current directory of /

really? UGG!
 > (not sure why you ever saw it
> have a path of the user directory, maybe PythonLauncher does that on 
> purpose?).  It would make sense for PythonLauncher to behave otherwise 
> though.
> 
> In the meantime, you could do:
> 
> import os
> os.chdir(os.path.dirname(__file__))
> 
> which will change to the directory that your script is in.

Is there a reliable way to change it to the user's home directory? can 
you count on this?:

import os
os.chdir(os.getenv("HOME"))

this works from a shell, but will HOME be defined in a GUI app?

-Chris


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