On 10/07/2015 15:27, Mark Storkamp via Python-list wrote:
I'm just learning Python, and I've run into trouble trying to change directory to the windows My Documents directory. There's likely a better way to do this, but this is what I've tried so far:--------------------------------------------- from tkinter import Tk from tkinter.filedialog import askopenfilename import os Tk().withdraw() sourcedir = os.environ['HOME']+"/Documents/" os.chdir(sourcedir) src = askopenfilename() if src == '' : sys.exit() fin = open(src, mode='r') ## do stuff fin.close() ----------------------------------------------- When this is run from IDLE, it works fine. But when I double click on the saved file to run it, it quits without ever showing the open file dialog box, and doesn't show any error message. The problem is with the os.environ['HOME'] call. If I comment it out (and fix up the surrounding code with an absolute path) then it runs. But then it won't work properly for other users. Interestingly enough, when I moved this to a Mac so I could post to Usenet, I discovered it works fine on the Mac. Only Windows seems to be the problem. Windows 7. Any thoughts or suggestions?
Home isn't defined in Windows but somehow is in IDLE? From a command line enter "set home<cr>". Doing that on my Windows 8.1 box shows:-
HOMEDRIVE=C: HOMEPATH=\Users\Mark -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
