[Edu-sig] PEPTALK: path sanity and newbie mental health -- please help

[Kirby Urner]

At 09:36 AM 7/7/2003 -0500, John Zelle wrote:

>Under Windows, the easiest way to do this is to place a shortcut for 
>Python, IDLE or whatever in the directory where you are working. Just make 
>sure that the "Start in:" entry of the shortcut is blank, and the program 
>will fire up using the directory it's currently in as the default working 
>directory. Since Python will load modules from the current directory, this 
>is a quick and easy way to work on your programs without doing any path 
>futzing at all.

On second thought, this does seem to be a viable alternative to the .pth 
method.

Both are very simple to implement.

Kirby