On Tue, Sep 14, 2021, 7:58 PM David Mertz, Ph.D. <david.me...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think this would be convenient. > > And yes, it's not thread safe. But neither is os.chdir() to start with. > Someone whose script, or library, wants to chdir can already shoot > themselves in the foot. This makes that slightly less likely, not more. > I agree. In terms of the bikeshed color, I think putting this in `pathlib` is the > best approach for "modern Python." > I disagree. The way I see it, `pathlib` is home of *Path(). No functions. Just *Path(). Then again, I didn't write pathlib. I could be misunderstanding the intent. However, workdir() doesn't deal with Paths. Sure, it takes a PathLike as an argument, but it doesn't perform operations on a Path or return a Path. I think changing the CWD belongs squarely in the os module. >
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