file open default location

[Richard Brodie]

"T. Crane" <tcrane at REMOVETHISuiuc.edu> wrote in message 
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> As an aside, I forgot to mention above that I'm using Windows XP.  Any other ideas or 
> possible reasons that it would not choose my script location as the default location to 
> save something?

If you open a DOS window and run Python from there, it will write the files
in whatever directory you were in when you typed the command.

If you are running Python directly from Windows, or from an IDE, it's up
to the OS or the IDE to decide what your default directory is. Often it
will be the home directory from your user profile.