[Tutor] Problem with graphics.py

Alan Gauld alan.gauld at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Aug 10 04:40:22 EDT 2016


On 09/08/16 17:55, Michael Selik wrote:

> Do you mind running the following commands from the python shell?
> 
> py> import os
> py> os.getcwd()
> '/Users/mike'
> py> sorted(os.listdir('.'))
> ['.Trash', 'Applications', 'Desktop', ...]
> 
> This will show us what location your python interpreter has as the "current
> working directory" and whether or not the "graphics.py" file is present in
> that directory.

That's true but only one of the locations that Python looks in.
You also need to use the command Steven suggested:

>>> import sys
>>> sys.path

to see all the places Python will look.

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