Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > Using chdir() makes sense and it doesn't look like a too big problem to me:
It's a problem if another thread in the process is making file operations using relative paths at the same time. Since shutil functions have until now been safe against this possibility, I don't think it's ok to make them unsafe in future versions. _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4489> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com