[Tutor] Fwd: Re: Setting Command Line Arguments in IDLE

[Alan Gauld]

Oops, Forgot to include the list....!



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Subject: 	Re: Setting Command Line Arguments in IDLE
Date: 	Sun, 26 May 2019 09:03:36 +0100
From: 	Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at yahoo.co.uk>
To: 	Richard Damon <Richard at Damon-Family.org>



On 26/05/2019 02:55, Richard Damon wrote:
> I am working on a python script that will be provided arguments when run
> from the system command line. Is there any place in IDLE to provide
> equivalent arguments for testing while developing in IDLE?
>

There used to be a dialog for that but in the latest version
of IDLE I can't find it. I wonder when it disappeared and why?

The best place to ask is probably on the IDLE-dev list.

It can be found here:

https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/idle-dev

> Is there any way to define the working directory for the program, 

os.getcwd() # read current dir
os.chdir() # set current dir

> If not, is there an easy way to detect that I am running in IDLE so I
> can fake the command line arguments when testing?

Not that I'm aware, but the idle-dev gurus may have some ideas.

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