2011/9/9 kaustubh joshi <kandrjo...@gmail.com>: > Hello friends, > How do we carry out the command "cd .." in python? > > My problem is : > I have a set of folders say m=1,2,3,4. In each of these folders, I have > subfolders with common name say m_5,m_6,m_7,m_8. In each of these subfolder, > there is a file which I have edit. > 1 > 2 3 > 4 > | > | | > | > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 1_5, 1_6, 1_7, 1_8 2_5 ,2_6, > 2_7, 2_8 3_5, 3_6, 3_7, 3_8 4_5, 4_6, 4_7, 4_8 > > That is how I designed it > > When I run my script, it follows the route 1 ---> 1_5-----> do the edit job > in the file. Now it need to change the subfolder from 1_5 to 1_6, which is > not happening. > > I created the folders using variable like m for folder taking values 1,2,3,4 > and m_n for subfolders with n=5,6,7,8. > > I am trying with os.chdir(path), but stuck with how to use m_n in it. > > What I am missing at the moment is something that do the job "cd .." does. > > Any help > > > Karan > > > > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > > Hi, Would maybe adjusting the path like this work?
>>> my_path = "c://d/e/f/g/" >>> os.path.abspath(my_path + os.pardir) 'c:\\d\\e\\f' >>> hth, vbr -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
