rave247 rave247 wrote: > If I could use os.getcwd() or save the value to some variable before calling > os.chdir() > I would do it, believe me. However I can't because it is the part of code where I > can't do any changes. > > Also I do not agree that such thing is not possible because after python > script > finishes its work, it naturally gets back into the original location from where > you started the script (in shell you are in the original location after script > finishes). So this information has to be stored somewhere (probably in shell which > runs the interpreter) and there *must* be a way how to get it. Simply after > calling os.chdir() the original value doen't disappear, I think it just needs > some nice hack if python doesn't provide a way how to get it. > Python runs as a sub-process. The parent process (the one that started Python) contains the working directory that the Python interpreter inherited from it. But you can't expect to just go poking around inside the environment of your parent process, which will typically be waiting for you to finish before it continues. Why *must* there be a way to get at its current directory? Once it continues, of course, it does so in the same directory. If you want to hack into your parent process to find that information that's up to you, but Python certainly has no special mechanism for doing it.
If you treat the answers to all your questions with so little respect it's a wonder you bother asking the questions in the first place. You didn't even explain what the relationship was between the "myscript" that you want to run and the Python code that you want to switch back to the original working directory. Sorry, we aren't mind readers (though some of the guys on this list get close on occasion). regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com Skype: holdenweb http://del.icio.us/steve.holden --------------- Asciimercial ------------------ Get on the web: Blog, lens and tag the Internet Many services currently offer free registration ----------- Thank You for Reading ------------- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
