[Python-ideas] chdir context manager

[Calvin Spealman]

-1 from me, as well. Encouraging a bad habit.


On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> -1 from me
>
> I consider caring about the current directory to be an anti-pattern -
> paths should be converted to absolute ASAP, and for invocation of
> other tools that care about the current directory, that's why the
> subprocess APIs accept a "cwd" argument. I certainly don't want to
> encourage people to unnecessarily rely on global state by providing a
> standard library context manager that makes it easier to do so.
>
> Regards,
> Nick.
>
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