* MRAB (Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:54:00 +0100)
> Pascale Mourier wrote:
> > Martin v. Löwis a écrit :
> >
> >> Without having seen any details, I refuse to guess. Most likely, it is
> >> a user mistake.
> >
> > YES IT IS! Sorry for the inconvenience. I usually start from this
> > assumption. Yesterday this new student was really agressive, and I
> > assumed he was right!
> >
> > Here's his mistake: with Windows the name of the directory rooted at a
> > drive name (say C:) is called 'C:\' not 'C:', and it's been that way for
> > ages.
> > Well, os.listdir('C:') instead of raising an exception, for some reason
> > behaves like os.listdir('.').
>
> I believe that in Windows (and inherited from MS-DOS) there's a current
> directory for each drive. If you want to change the current directory to
> another directory on another drive in the Windows command prompt then
> you must change both the current drive and the current directory for
> that drive, eg:
Exactly (or use the "/d" parameter which is a newer improvement).
Thorsten
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