[Tutor] How to change the working directory in IDLE

[Martin Walsh]

Martin Walsh wrote:
> Elisha Rosensweig wrote:
>> Hi Tutors,
>>
>> I"m using Python 2.6.2 and the IDLE tool (also v. 2.6.2). However, when
>> I open the editor I cannot seem to change the directory so as to allow
>> for easy access to my modules. So, for example, the following occurs:
>>
>> os.chdir('/Users/elisha/Documents/workspace/CacheNetFramework/src/Tests')
>>>>> os.getcwd()
>> '/Users/elisha/Documents/workspace/CacheNetFramework/src/Tests'
>>>>> import CSITest
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "<pyshell#9>", line 1, in <module>
>>     import CSITest
>> ImportError: No module named CSITest
>>
>>
>> What am I doing wrong?
> 
> http://docs.python.org/tutorial/modules.html#the-module-search-path
> 
> You probably want to append to sys.path in your script, or to the
> PYTHONPATH environment variable, instead of using os.chdir.

Sorry, 'in your script' should read something like 'in Idle'. Here's
another doc reference.

http://docs.python.org/tutorial/modules.html#tut-standardmodules

> 
> import sys
> sys.path.append('/Users/elisha/Documents/workspace/CacheNetFramework/src/Tests')
> 
> import CSITest
> 
> HTH,
> Marty