Re: Verifying My Troublesome Linkage Claim between Python and Win7

2010-03-02 Thread alex23
W. eWatson wolftra...@invalid.com wrote: My claim is that if one creates a program in a folder that reads a file in the folder it and then copies it to another folder, it will read  the data file in the first folder, and not a changed file in the new folder. I'd appreciate it if some w7 users

Re: Verifying My Troublesome Linkage Claim between Python and Win7

2010-03-01 Thread W. eWatson
On 2/23/2010 6:04 PM, Aahz wrote: In articlehm0jn4$tn...@news.eternal-september.org, W. eWatsonwolftra...@invalid.com wrote: My claim is that if one creates a program in a folder that reads a file in the folder it and then copies it to another folder, it will read the data file in the first

Verifying My Troublesome Linkage Claim between Python and Win7

2010-02-23 Thread W. eWatson
In the last day, I posted a message titled What's Going on between Python and win7? I'd appreciate it if someone could verify my claim. A sample program to do this is below. I'm using IDLE in Win7 with Py 2.5. My claim is that if one creates a program in a folder that reads a file in the

Re: Verifying My Troublesome Linkage Claim between Python and Win7

2010-02-23 Thread Rick Dooling
No telling what Windows will do. :) I am a mere hobbyist programmer, but I think real programmers will tell you that it is a bad habit to use relative paths. Use absolute paths instead and remove all doubt. http://docs.python.org/library/os.path.html RD --

Re: Verifying My Troublesome Linkage Claim between Python and Win7

2010-02-23 Thread W. eWatson
On 2/23/2010 8:26 AM, Rick Dooling wrote: No telling what Windows will do. :) I am a mere hobbyist programmer, but I think real programmers will tell you that it is a bad habit to use relative paths. Use absolute paths instead and remove all doubt. http://docs.python.org/library/os.path.html

Re: Verifying My Troublesome Linkage Claim between Python and Win7

2010-02-23 Thread Gib Bogle
Rick Dooling wrote: No telling what Windows will do. :) It isn't useful to respond to a serious question with OS bigotry. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Verifying My Troublesome Linkage Claim between Python and Win7

2010-02-23 Thread Gib Bogle
W. eWatson wrote: On 2/23/2010 8:26 AM, Rick Dooling wrote: No telling what Windows will do. :) I am a mere hobbyist programmer, but I think real programmers will tell you that it is a bad habit to use relative paths. Use absolute paths instead and remove all doubt.

Re: Verifying My Troublesome Linkage Claim between Python and Win7

2010-02-23 Thread W. eWatson
On 2/23/2010 11:14 AM, Gib Bogle wrote: W. eWatson wrote: On 2/23/2010 8:26 AM, Rick Dooling wrote: No telling what Windows will do. :) I am a mere hobbyist programmer, but I think real programmers will tell you that it is a bad habit to use relative paths. Use absolute paths instead and

Re: Verifying My Troublesome Linkage Claim between Python and Win7

2010-02-23 Thread Gib Bogle
W. eWatson wrote: On 2/23/2010 11:14 AM, Gib Bogle wrote: W. eWatson wrote: On 2/23/2010 8:26 AM, Rick Dooling wrote: No telling what Windows will do. :) I am a mere hobbyist programmer, but I think real programmers will tell you that it is a bad habit to use relative paths. Use absolute

Re: Verifying My Troublesome Linkage Claim between Python and Win7

2010-02-23 Thread Aahz
In article hm0jn4$tn...@news.eternal-september.org, W. eWatson wolftra...@invalid.com wrote: My claim is that if one creates a program in a folder that reads a file in the folder it and then copies it to another folder, it will read the data file in the first folder, and not a changed file in

Re: Verifying My Troublesome Linkage Claim between Python and Win7

2010-02-23 Thread Rick Dooling
On Feb 23, 1:08 pm, Gib Bogle g.bo...@auckland.no.spam.ac.nz wrote: It isn't useful to respond to a serious question with OS bigotry. Okay, I'll go with what Aahz said: I've seen similar issues on Win7. AFAIK, this has nothing to do with Python. --