[Tutor] python: can't open file 'test.py' : [Errno 2] No such file or directory

[Pierre Dagenais]

Timothy Grant wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 9:01 PM, Pierre Dagenais <pierre.dagenais at ncf.ca> wrote:
>   
>> Timothy Grant wrote:
>>     
>>> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Pierre Dagenais
>>> <pierre.dagenais at ncf.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> The file test.py is in I:\Python25\MyCode,
>>>> if I enter:
>>>>
>>>>  C:\>Python25\MyCode\python25 test.py at the DOS prompt, everything works
>>>> as
>>>> I would expect.
>>>>
>>>> However when I enter the same command from any other directory I get this
>>>> error:
>>>>
>>>>  C:\>python test.py
>>>>  python: can't open file 'test.py' : [Errno 2] No such file or directory
>>>>
>>>> I've set the environment variable pythonpath as
>>>>  C:\>set pythonpath = C:\\Python25\\MyCode
>>>> what am I doing wrong,
>>>> Thank u for your help,
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>>>>         
>>> You need to give the full path to your test.py file.
>>>
>>> PYTHONPATH sets the python library search path.
>>>
>>>
>>>  Thank you Tim,
>>> Definitively C:\python \python25\mycode\test.py does work. If you're right
>>> about having to give the full path, and I suspect you are, Then this means
>>> that python knows to search the currennt working directory for  the file to
>>> execute, but nowhere else. It seems a strange behavior. Maybe this is on Mr.
>>> Guido van Rossum todo list.
>>>
>>>       
>
> Why is that strange? Would you expect any other program not on the
> path to execute without a fully qualified path? Make your python code
> executable, and put it somewhere on the path and I'm quite sure it
> would run as expected (though it has been over 10 years since I last
> had to work on a Windows box so I'm not quite sure how to do that).
>
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> Yes Tim, but both PATH and PYTHONPATH are set to \python25 and \python25\MyCode, so I don't understand why python searches the CWD but neither the path nor pythonpath directories.