Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!goblin3!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!news2.euro.net!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.011 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.98; '*S*': 0.00; 'paths': 0.07; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'python': 0.11; 'windows': 0.15; "'last": 0.16; '3.3,': 0.16; 'exe': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'subfolder': 0.16; 'subject:3.3': 0.16; 'suggestion.': 0.16; 'throwaway': 0.16; 'x.y': 0.16; 'folder': 0.16; 'appropriate': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'code.': 0.18; 'version.': 0.19; 'seems': 0.21; 'code,': 0.22; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'directory.': 0.24; 'fine': 0.24; 'versions': 0.24; 'possibly': 0.26; 'somewhere': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header:In- Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'installed': 0.27; 'generally': 0.29; 'quickly': 0.29; 'joe': 0.30; 'code': 0.31; '(on': 0.31; 'go.': 0.31; 'file': 0.32; 'stuff': 0.32; 'option': 0.32; 'run': 0.32; 'another': 0.32; 'open': 0.33; 'linux': 0.33; 'problem': 0.35; 'test': 0.35; 'but': 0.35; 'idle': 0.36; 'list': 0.37; 'system,': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'files': 0.38; 'list,': 0.38; 'pm,': 0.38; 'that,': 0.38; 'recent': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'even': 0.60; 'most': 0.60; 'received:173': 0.61; 'first': 0.61; 'save': 0.62; 'name': 0.63; 'became': 0.64; 'more': 0.64; 'different': 0.65; 'here': 0.66; 'default': 0.69; 'received:fios.verizon.net': 0.84; 'sitting': 0.91; 'browse': 0.95; 'hill': 0.95 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Terry Jan Reedy Subject: Re: Data storage Py 3.3 Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2013 22:09:53 -0400 References: <515cb2de$0$6877$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-173-75-251-66.phlapa.fios.verizon.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130307 Thunderbird/17.0.4 In-Reply-To: <515cb2de$0$6877$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 33 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1365041410 news.xs4all.nl 6911 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:59277 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:42727 On 4/3/2013 6:53 PM, Irmen de Jong wrote: > On 4-4-2013 0:33, Joe Hill wrote: >> IDLE wants to use Python33 as the data storage folder - with exe files >> etc. >> Typically the 'default data storage' is in 'last used' directory or most >> programs even have a browse setting that one can quickly set and reset. >> >> What do people here generally do? >> >> When I installed 3.3, (W7- 64) I selected the first option for paths etc. >> and everything seems to just run fine I have a c:\Programs folder where I put multiple versions of python and selected other programs whose directories I might want to visit. > Don't store your files in the Python33 directory even though it is idle's default > suggestion. I once did that, but then I had to move stuff when the Python x.y directory became obsolete. It was also a problem when I wanted to test a file with more than one python version. > > I have my Python code sitting in appropriate subdirectories of a 'Projects' folder > somewhere (on a different drive on my Windows system, or just a subfolder in my > homedirectory on my Linux VM). I have a file tem.py in my miscellaneous python directory. When I am writing possibly throwaway code, I open it from the recent files list, empty the old code, and go. I can always save as another name if I want to keep the code. tem.py is almost always on the list because I use it frequently.