Woo, Daniel wrote: > Is there some kind of parsing/checking that is done on the defaultPath? > The path I would like to set as default is something like this: > > “c:\Somedirectory\engineering\somedirectory”. When providing this as > the default, the control seems to think it is an invalid path, although > it IS a valid path under Windows. I’m pretty sure this is because two > directories in the hierarchy have the same name. Since it believes this > is an invalid path, the dialog opens up browsing in the root directory. > I can successfully set the default to other directories, nested as deep > as I want and it works as expected. > > Anyway around this? > I think you need to revise your hypothesis about what's wrong with your program. There's no reason why it shouldn't be able to cope with a path that has a duplicate directory name at different levels.
It's *much* more likely that you aren't correctly escaping the back-quotes in your path. See http://www.ferg.org/projects/python_gotchas.html#contents_item_2 for an explanation. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com Skype: holdenweb http://del.icio.us/steve.holden --------------- Asciimercial ------------------ Get on the web: Blog, lens and tag the Internet Many services currently offer free registration ----------- Thank You for Reading ------------- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
