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Josh M
Josh M

Reputation: 41

Spyder running script with different working directory to script directory

I have set the Spyder 2.7 preferences as follows: Preferences->Run-> General Settings-> Default working directory is: the script directory.

However for a particular script, spyder sets the working directory to the parent directory.

I have scripts in the same directory which don't exhibit this behaviour and run with the expected wdir.

I don't understand where or how the wdir is being altered from the default for this particular script.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2997

Answers (2)

Josh M
Josh M

Reputation: 41

Under 'run' menu-> configure. This gives you an option to set the working directory for each individual script.

Upvotes: 2

CupinaCoffee
CupinaCoffee

Reputation: 457

I don't have the solution, but I had the exact same problem with a MATLAB script a while ago. It turned out I ran a copy of the script, and it included the path of the original, and set that as the wdir. I ran the original, it worked. If I moved the original, it didn't run because it tried running it from the previous wdir.

I ended up copying the code into a new script-file, which solved it for me. Perhaps you can try something similar.

Best of luck!

Upvotes: 0

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