For background, I am using the Atom editor with the script package installed.
Within Atom, there are two projects that I normally use.
D:/Data_files/Git/Projects
D:/Data_files/Python/Notes
When I normally open atom from the terminal, I have both projects open, and for whatever reason it has the default project or something set to the Git/Projects project
The Git/Projects directory is not important, but here is what the Python directory looks like.
D:/Data_files/Python/Notes/
__init__.py
files_and_exceptions.py
text.txt
Here's what text.txt
contains
This is the text of text.txt
Here is what files_and_exceptions.py
contains
import os
print(os.getcwd)
os.chdir("../../Python/Notes")
print(os.getcwd)
with open('text.txt') as hello:
contents = hello.read()
print(contents)
Which outputs when I run it using CTRL+SHIFT+B
from the files_and_exceptions.py
using script
D:/Data_files/Git/Projects
D:/Data_files/Python/Notes
This is the text of text.txt
So even though I'm running it from the Python/Notes directory, the current working directory is set to Git/Projects. I want files_and_exceptions.py
to print text.txt
without importing and changing directories when running from the file because that's how it would work when I run it normally using Python's Shell. I know I can set it by opening Atom from the directories in separate windows but that gets irritating when I'm working with multiple projects at once. Is there any way to easily change the current working directory of Atom when working between projects or modify the script package to change the current working directory to the directory of the open tab (ie: files_and_exceptions.py
) when I run it with CTRL+SHIFT+B
?
In the default settings, script
uses the project directory of the first project in your Project tree. In the settings of script
, you can change the that the project directory of your current script (or the directory your script resides in itself).
You go to settings (press Ctrl+,), then the Packages
tab, you search for the script
package and the first dropdown menu is that setting.
If you don't want to change this, you can also have script
run with a specific profile.
In the command palette Ctrl+Shift+p, you search for script: Run options
and you get a menu with some settings to start your script with. You can save those as profile and later use script: Run with Profile
to reload.