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  Data storage Py 3.3 Joe Hill <JH@nospamever.com> - 2013-04-03 15:33 -0700
    Re: Data storage Py 3.3 Irmen de Jong <irmen.NOSPAM@xs4all.nl> - 2013-04-04 00:53 +0200
      Re: Data storage Py 3.3 Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-04-03 22:09 -0400

#42714 — Data storage Py 3.3

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

j

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#42716

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
> 
> j
> 

Don't store your files in the Python33 directory even though it is idle's default
suggestion.


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 don't use idle myself, but you can simply browse to the appropriate folder and file
location. Idle will remember that location for the next time you use the file dialog.


Irmen

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#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.

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