On 2/27/2010 12:38 PM, Dave Angel wrote:
Wayne Watson wrote:
Ok, I'm back after a three day trip. You are correct about the use of
pronouns and a few misplaced words. I should have reread what I
wrote. I had described this in better detail elsewhere, and followed
that description with the request here probably thinking back to it.
I think I was getting a bit weary of trying to find an answer. Try
t;his.
Folder1
track1.py
data1.txt
data2.txt
data3.txt
Folder2
track1.py
dset1.txt
dset2.txt
...
dset8.txt
So how do you know this is the structure? If there really are
shortcuts or symbol links, why aren't you showing them? Did you do a
DIR from the command line, to see what's there? Or are you looking in
Explorer, which doesn't even show file extensions by default, and just
guessing what's where ?
I can see it looking at the folder. I suppose one might call it Win
Explorer. It doesn't show any links. If I pick a file and right click on
it, then a number of menu items are shown. If I pick Properties, it
shows the link. The only link I need to provide you for the above, I
described below. Look at the properties of the py file in folder2.
data and dset files have the same record formats. track1.py was
copied into Folder2 with ctrl-c + ctrl-v.
Those keys don't work from a command prompt. From there, you'd use
COPY or something similar. So I have to guess you were in an Explorer
window, pointing to Folder 1, and you selected the python file, and
pressed Ctrl-C. Then you navigated to Folder 2, and pressed Ctrl-V.
If you did, Windows 7 wouldn't have created any kind of special file,
any more than earlier ones did. Chances are you actually did
something else. For example, you might have used a right-click drag,
and answered "create shortcut" when it asked what you wanted to do.
Or perhaps you did drag/drop with some ctrl-or alt-key modifier.
You're right. I either dragged and dropped, or right clicked on the file
and used the copy item. Similarly pasted, It's almost second nature to
me. I'll do one right now using Explorer.
I'm in a folder that I called folder1 here. It has lots of txt files. I
selected one, and mouse clicked copy. I then created a sub folder called
junk, and selected it's empty, as expected. Now a mouse click to paste.
The txt file is there. I mouse click on properties and the "link" says
it's right where I punt it. In junk.
Anyway, you need to be more explicit about what you did. If you had
used a command prompt, you could at least have pasted the things you
tried directly to your message, so we wouldn't have so much guessing
to do.
Well, I guess I could get out my video camera and make a video, which I
say tongue-in-cheek, but I really can do that.
When I run track1.py from folder1, it clearly has examined the
data.txt files.
And how are you running track1.py ? And how do you really know that's
what ran? The code you posted would display a string, then the window
would immediately go away, so you couldn't read it anyway.
Awhile ago I ran it from IDLE. I know it rain because it puts output on
the shell window, and writes three files.
If I run the copy of track1.py in folder2, it clearly operates on
folder1 (one) data.txt files. This should not be.
If I look at the properties of track1.py in folder2 (two), it is
pointing back to the program in folder1 (one).
Exactly what do you mean by "pointing back" ? If you're getting icons
in your Explorer view, is there a little arrow in the corner? When
you did the properties, did you see a tab labeled "shortcut" ?
I do not use shortcut. I really don't know about Explorer. I use what is
probably Explorer. It works like this. Go to drive C:. It displays 15
folders. I click on the a folder until I get to my py programs. Once
there, I see them and others all listed.
I do not believe I've experienced this sort of linkage in any WinOS
before. I believed I confirmed that the same behavior occurs using
cmd prompt.
Shortcuts have been in Windows for at least 20 years. But you still
haven't given enough clues about what you're doing.
Video anyone? How about a live session? I have a tool made by Cisco
that would allow us to look at either's screen Actually, I really don't
plan to build a career out of finding out the cause of this, so let's
forget that. I'm read to punt.
I sent a copy of the program to Steven. I do not see it oisted. Possibly
two reasons. It's stuck on my server, or the attachment is being held by
the moderator. If someone cannot find the problem there, I think it's
MS's problem, and I can probably finagle the code into folder in a way
to test it in the "problem" folder. I'm the only user of these programs
that is likely to use W7. I can also go back to my XP PC, and finish
this off there.
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