Newby Python Programming Question

[Coyote]

CM writes:

> I don't know Spyder IDE, but I don't think this should happen; could
> there just be a simple mistake?  Because you first refer to the .py
> file as 'file_utils.py' but then you refer to the file as
> 'pwd.py'...which is also the name of your function. Room for
> confusion...so could you test this by saving only your one function
> (below), give the .py a new name to avoid confusion (like test_pwd.py)
> and then running *that* through Spyder IDE?
> 
> def pwd():
>     import os
>     print os.getcwd()

I probably explained the situation badly. I have a file pwd.py with these two lines of code in it:

    import os
    print os.getcwd()

If I start a new Spyder IDL session and "run" this file by choosing RUN from the menu bar, the directory is printed twice. This appears to me now to be an IDE error, because if I use a runfile command, the directory is printed only once, as I expect.

   >>>runfile('pwd.py')
    C:\Users\coyote\pyscripts

I've been playing around with a couple of IDEs because I liked the one I used with IDL and I wanted to use something similar for Python. The IDLDE was an Eclipse variant, but I've tried installing Eclipse before for something else and I'm pretty sure I don't need *that* kind of headache on a Friday afternoon. Unless, of course, I need a good excuse to head over to the Rio for the margaritas. :-)

Cheers,

David