[Tutor] Why does it display traceback info here and not there?

[bob gailer]

xbmuncher wrote:
> I have a script called: script.py and here are the contents:
>
> h = open('file2.dat', 'rb')
> data = h.read(1120)
> h.close()
> print(data)
>
> input("Press ENTER to exit")
>
>
> I am editing it in Notepad++ and I set it up so I can run in on 
> python.exe (I have python30) from the program, it sends these parameters:
> C:\Python30\python.exe pathToFile\folder\script.py
>
> Well when I run the script via this method, the screen flashes and 
> quickly disappears, so there must be some kind of error. I used screen 
> capture to try to capture what happened so I can read the message, 
> this is what I got:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "C:\path to file\script.py", line 1, in
> <module>
>     h = open('file2.dat', 'rb')
> File "C:\Python30\lib\io.py", line 278, in __new__
>     return open(*(args, **kwargs)
> File "C:\Python30\lib\io.py", line 222, in open
>     closefd)
> File "C:\Python30\lib\io.py", line 619, in __init__
>
>
> The WEIRD thing is, is that I can double click the same unchanged 
> script.py file and it will run from the same program python.exe and it 
> will display this output:
> \xb7\lots of these types of \xb codes
> Press ENTER to exit
>
>
> So my question is, why does it have different output run from the same 
> python.exe program when the script remains the same. I'd like to 
> called it to run from notepad++ out of convenience just as it runs 
> when I double click on it.. but i'm getting different behavior and I 
> dont know why... 
> Maybe I can turn off traceback info?

My guess is when you run from N++ there is a different current directory 
than when using dblclk. Run following script to verify that:

import os
print(os.getcwd())

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Bob Gailer
Chapel Hill NC
919-636-4239