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On 5/1/2011 9:00 PM, Chris Rebert wrote:

> I would think to a file named "screen_capture.jpg" in the current
> working directory. What that is for IDLE, I don't know.

At least on windows with 3.2, if one just starts up the shell, it is in 
the Pythonxy directory. If one runs a file from an edit window, it 
changes to the directory of the file, so it operates much as if one had 
run with the command python -i file.py in the directory of file.py.

> You can
> determine what folder that is by running this in your Python shell:
>
> from os import getcwd; print(getcwd())

Yes, this gives two different answers in the two cases noted above.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy