On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 12:56:42 +0100, andrea crotti wrote: > In the specific case there is absolutely no use of os.chdir, since you > can: > - use absolute paths > - things like subprocess.Popen accept a cwd argument - at worst you can > chdir back to the previous position right after the broken thing that > require a certain path that you are calling is run
I wouldn't say so much that there's "absolutely no use", it's more that there are other, safer, ways to get the same result. As I understand it, os.chdir is more for the convenience of sys admins who want to write quick scripts in Python than a function intended to be used in libraries or major applications. An interesting question is, what do other languages do in this case? -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
