Problem embedding Python.

[Dave Angel]

Dave Angel wrote:
> <div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed">Brandon 
> Keown wrote:
>> On Oct 27, 7:48 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-... at yahoo.com.ar>
>> wrote:
>>  
>>> <snip>
>>> Now that you've solved your problem, revise your conclusion. A file
>>> without a path *is* searched in the current working directory - but 
>>> that
>>> directory may not be the one you think it is.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Gabriel Genellina
>>>     
>>
>> I'm not sure what you mean.  I executed the program from the directory
>> the file was in, they were in the same directory.  And when a program
>> executes from a path in CMD in windows, that is supposed to be the
>> CWD.  I'm not sure what it would be set to if not that...
>>
>>   
> Gabriel is right.  But if you care to get our diagnosis, you need to 
> state your working conditions more clearly.  Or perhaps do a bit of 
> debugging on it.  For a start, you might do a    print os.curdir   
> right before the open() function to see what the current directory is.
>
> Or you could remove the several ambiguities in your paragraph above 
> that starts "I'm not sure..."  Maybe show a transcript of your CMD 
> session.  And if the python.* that's on your PATH is a batch file, 
> show us the contents of that as well.
>
> And if you're running from CMD, or from an interpreter, or from IDLE, 
> or from an IDE, or from Explorer, each one may have its own idea of 
> what to give you for current directory.
>
> If you're running the script from a CMD prompt, by just entering the 
> script name and letting Windows find the executable (which is not the 
> script), then you're correct, CWD should be the same as it was in the 
> CMD shell.
>
> DaveA
>
>
OK, I blew it.  Instead of re-reading the thread, I relied on memory.  
So please cancel my last paragraph, and let me try again.

The big differences between your working code and the non-working code 
are three:
   The non-working code uses relative file name, while the working code 
uses absolute path.
   The non-working code uses C's open() call, while the working code 
changed that to  PyFile_FromString(filename, "r")
   The non-working code uses "w" mode on the open, trashing the file, 
while the working code uses "r"

I'd claim that #3 is your real problem.  I doubt that a file open in "w" 
mode is acceptable to the interpreter, since the first thing that does 
is truncate the file.

Anyway, Gabriel's point (which I poorly elaborated on) about the current 
directory is still valid.  But you should use C calls to see what it is, 
rather than Python calls.  And I'd still like to know how you're 
launching this executable, this compiled C program.  If you're running 
it from a CMD window, a DOS box, then the current directory is obvious 
from the prompt.

DaveA