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Re: executing python scripts that are symlinked

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On 2013.05.16 02:48, Charles Smith wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> How can I say, from the cmd line, that python should take my CWD as my
> CWD, and not the directory where the script actually is?
> 
> 
> I have a python script that works fine when it sits in directory WC,
> but if I move it out of WC to H and put a symlink from H/script to WC,
> it doesn't find the packages that are in WC.  Also, if I use the
> absolute path to H, it won't find them, but I guess I can understand
> that.
Symlinks can find their targets, but targets have absolutely no way of knowing where symlinks to them are. It's one-way. It would work if
the actual file were in WC and you created a symlink inside H.

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executing python scripts that are symlinked Charles Smith <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> - 2013-05-16 00:48 -0700
  Re: executing python scripts that are symlinked Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2013-05-16 03:12 -0500
  Re: executing python scripts that are symlinked Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-05-16 04:18 -0400
    Re: executing python scripts that are symlinked Charles Smith <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> - 2013-05-16 01:29 -0700
      Re: executing python scripts that are symlinked Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-05-16 10:45 -0400
  Re: executing python scripts that are symlinked Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-05-16 09:04 +0000
    Re: executing python scripts that are symlinked Charles Smith <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> - 2013-05-16 02:23 -0700

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