On 03/05/10 15:56, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2010-05-03, Baz Walter<baz...@ftml.net> wrote:
On 03/05/10 14:46, Peter Otten wrote:
Baz Walter wrote:
attempting to remove the cwd would produce an error). but how can python
determine the parent directory of a directory that no longer exists?
My tentative explanation would be that the directory, namely the inode,
still exists -- only the entry for it in its parent directory is gone.
So "one level up from here" is still a valid operation, but there is no
longer a path in the file system associated with "here".
so "here" must always be available somehow,
Yes.
even if getcwd() fails
If the current working directory doesn't _have_ a path within a
filesystem, what do you expect it to do?
well, i expect it to fail, like i said :)
(something like the environment variable $PWD). shame that
os.getenv('PWD') isn't reliable, as it would solve my issue :(
I don't understand what you mean by that.
i'm trying to understand how the path of the cwd can be known if there
is no entry for it in the filesytem - but this is starting to get a
little OT, so i won't pursue it here any longer.
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