Re: Problem calling python

"Luke Dunstan" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.windows-ce
Message-ID <[email protected]>
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Blake" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 12:19 AM
Subject: Re: [PythonCE] Problem calling python


>
> I've been wondering about that.  Don't you get the full path to a script 
> when
> it is run?  Otherwise how would Python know where to find the file it's
> supposed to execute?  How can you open a file without knowing where it is?
> And if you do know where a script is being run from - shouldn't that be 
> the
> scripts initial working directory?

Your suggestion has been implemented in the latest release.

Luke

>
> --- Luke Dunstan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> While you are debugging this, please be aware that unlike most operating
>> systems, Windows CE has no concept of a "current directory" at all. The
>> command prompt gives the illusion of a current directory for convenience
>> but
>> once you start another program it will have no way of knowing what the
>> command prompt current directory was. PythonCE also emulates a current
>> directory for compatibility with other Python platforms but it is always
>> "\Temp" when you start PythonCE. You can see what the current (emulated)
>> directory is using os.getcwd().
>>
>> Luke
>>
>
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