On 25/07/2006, at 6:20 AM, Christopher Barker wrote: >> Setting the working directory to the directory containing the >> script would be more useful.
It really is a bad idea to write into software directories of any sort. They should be able to be write protected for security. > > I'm not so sure. That's a bad habit from the old MacOS and Windows. > $HOME is an excellent choice for the default working directory. /tmp is also to be preferred to $HOME because on most UNIX systems including MacOS X, it is cleaned out an each reboot. If you use $HOME you end up with a mass of old temporary files - the standard Windows curse. Apple seem to have adopted a convention of using /tmp/UID. I think the idea is that these are cleaned when the user logs out. So a full restart is not needed to clean out junk. Bill Northcott _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
