Russ P. wrote: > I've been programming in python for a few years using XEmacs on > Solaris and Linux. I've been thinking about trying IDLE for a long > time, but either it wasn't available on my system or I procrastinated. > I finally have it available, and I gave it a try. > > I immediately encountered a basic problem for which I could not find a > solution in the intro docs. I want to run a script in one directory > that reads input from a file in another directory. Maybe I'm just not > very smart, but I couldn't figure out how to do it. Will someone > please give me a clue? > > More generally, I don't see much discussion of IDLE on this newsgroup. > Are many python programmers using it? I see that some of the intro and > tutorial docs have not been updated for several years. Is IDLE still > actively supported? Or would I be better off just going directly to a > commercially supported IDE such as Wing? Thanks. >
You can read a file from another directory either by specifying the entire path to the file or by using os.curdir() function to make it the current directory before opening/reading from it. Lots of discussions on this have been posted try looking into history of this list. Everything from vi to Eclipse to Wing. -Larry -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
