Miki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> The problem is, he is not printing the name of the current working
>> directory; he is printing the value of the variable $PWD. =A0That is
>> likely set from the environment by the shell he started the Python
>> program from, but Python does *not* update to reflect changes to
>> the working directory.
> Should I see it as a bug? Should subprocess change this?
No, it's not a bug. No, subprocess should not muck around with
the environment variables unless explicitly told to do so.
$PWD is only set by some (not all!) shells. It should not be
trusted outside those shells, and hardly inside them either.
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