[Tutor] python and mingw home directory problem

[Peter Wig]

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to run some commands with mingw from python.  However, somehow my home directory (for mingw) is being changed when I initialize tk.  Here's an example:

import os
from Tkinter import Tk
os.system("C:/msys/1.0/bin/sh.exe --login -i -c 'pwd'  ") # just print my home directory
root = Tk()
os.system("C:/msys/1.0/bin/sh.exe --login -i -c 'pwd'  ") # just print my home directory

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
output:
/home/Pete
/c/Documents and Settings/Pete


As you can see, initializing Tk has somehow changed my mingw home directory from "/home/Pete" to "/c/Documents and Settings/Pete".  Since "/home/Pete" has my login script, this is a major problem.

The actual change happens at _tkinter.create(.....) during Tk().

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Pete

 		
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