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Re: Trouble getting to windows My Documents directory

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On 2015-07-10 09:27, Mark Storkamp via Python-list wrote:
> sourcedir = os.environ['HOME']+"/Documents/"

First, I'd do a couple things here to accommodate various systems to
make it cross-platform:

  sourcedir = os.path.join(
    os.path.expanduser('~'),
    "Documents"
    )

> os.chdir(sourcedir)
> src = askopenfilename()

Then, rather than changing to that directory, use

  src = askopenfilename(initialdir=sourcedir)

> When this is run from IDLE, it works fine. But when I double click
> on the saved file to run it, it quits without ever showing the open
> file dialog box, and doesn't show any error message.

If the above doesn't solve the problem, you might try writing the
sourcedir to a file so you can see what it thinks you're trying to
open.

> The problem is with the os.environ['HOME'] call. If I comment it
> out (and fix up the surrounding code with an absolute path) then it
> runs. But then it won't work properly for other users.

I suspect that inspecting that sourcedir will show what's going on,
and that the above tweaks will ameliorate the problem.

-tkc

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Trouble getting to windows My Documents directory Mark Storkamp <mstorkamp@yahoo.com> - 2015-07-10 09:27 -0500
  Re: Trouble getting to windows My Documents directory Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-07-10 15:47 +0100
  Re: Trouble getting to windows My Documents directory Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-07-10 17:11 +0200
  Re: Trouble getting to windows My Documents directory MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2015-07-10 16:12 +0100
    Re: Trouble getting to windows My Documents directory Mark Storkamp <mstorkamp@yahoo.com> - 2015-07-10 10:25 -0500
      Re: Trouble getting to windows My Documents directory Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-07-10 10:48 -0700
        Re: Trouble getting to windows My Documents directory Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-07-10 10:56 -0700
  Re: Trouble getting to windows My Documents directory Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2015-07-10 09:46 -0500
  Re: Trouble getting to windows My Documents directory random832@fastmail.us - 2015-07-10 20:24 -0400
  Re: Trouble getting to windows My Documents directory Chris Warrick <kwpolska@gmail.com> - 2015-07-11 09:28 +0200
  Re: Trouble getting to windows My Documents directory Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-07-11 11:47 -0400
  Re: Trouble getting to windows My Documents directory random832@fastmail.us - 2015-08-01 02:50 -0400

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