Python editor: current working directory behavior is unexpected

Create the following setup:

• the file browser lists no files
• create a python script script1.py that produces a file ./file1.txt
• run script1.py in the editor. ./file1.txt is created in the same directory
• create a subdirectory dir2
• in dir2 create a python script script2.py that produces a file ./file2.txt
• run script2.py in the editor. ./file2.txt is created in the parent directory

I do realize that when one runs python dir2/script2.py in a terminal window, cwd is .. However, in JL I expected cwd to be the directory where the Python script is located, since a drill down in the file browser should be semantically equivalent to a cd dir2. The script name in the editor also lists script2.py not dir2/script2.py, which seems to imply that cwd is the location of the script, not the base directory in the file browser.

Related issue: https://github.com/elyra-ai/elyra/issues/1045

[karlaspuldaro]

@kevin-bates Makes sense, I can take a look at that.

[lresende]

Reassigning to try to get this to the 1.4 release