I was afraid of that. Thanks for the thorough response. I was trying to cut
some corners to just get a feel for things, but I think much more thought
will have to go into this.
On Wednesday, February 15, 2017 at 10:40:59 AM UTC-5, Terry Brown wrote:
>
> I think as a general rule with os.chdir()/os.getcwd() in Python apps. you
> can't assume its value, it's a single piece of state shared across the
> entire app. and all libraries, so really the best thing to do is not use it
> or rely on it.
>
> Your result is not surprising, Leo is setting it between script calls.
> Possibly Leo is doing this intentionally in a constructive way, setting
> the cwd to the path implied by the node you're in (taking into account the
> location of the .leo file and all parent @path directives. If you think
> about it a truly Leonine shell representation might use the tree to
> represent directories.
>
> For your application I'm not sure what the best approach might be. You
> could sandwich your shell work between calls to some get_last_cwd() /
> save_last_cwd() that stores a cwd in a uA per node or something.
>
> Or perhaps a custom cd() function that does both get_last_cwd() and
> save_last_cwd() at once, saves having to remember to use the other
> functions.
>
> Cheers -Terry
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* john lunzer <lun...@gmail.com <javascript:>>
> *To:* leo-editor <leo-e...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>>
> *Cc:* lar...@gmail.com <javascript:>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 15, 2017 7:58 AM
> *Subject:* Re: Leo's HOME directory
>
> I'll use this thread because it seems relevant. I'm trying to do some
> experiments using Leo as a shell. Amongst other things I'm trying to change
> this current working directory. I have a small node script:
>
> @language python
>
> import os
> os.chdir("..")
> g.es(os.getcwd(), color="green")
>
> Perhaps naively I expected the log to show that I keeping dropping down a
> level, as it would in a interactive python session. Unfortunately the
> output is the same each time.
>
> Any suggestions on changing the working directory? Or suggestions on
> alternatives to keeping track of working directory in scripts.
>
> On Thursday, April 21, 2016 at 7:20:52 PM UTC-4, Edward K. Ream wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 1:44 PM, Largo84 <lar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Sorry I don't know the whole back story on this, but why was this plugin
> disabled?
>
>
> I have no recollection of 2008 :-)
>
>
>
> What's the alternative way to explicitly specify a different HOME
> directory than the OS default?
>
>
> According to lm.computeHomeDir,
>
> the home directory is
>
> os.path.expanduser("~")
>
> There is a comment in Leo's code that Windows searches the HOME, HOMEPATH
> and HOMEDRIVE environment vars. Full details here
> <https://docs.python.org/2/library/os.path.html>. (Search for expanduser
> on this page).
>
> Edward
>
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