chdir questions

Alex alex at somewhere.round.here
Sun Feb 6 14:55:26 EST 2000


> I know this is must be an easy one but how do I use os.chdir?  I have
> tried many different ways of listing the path but no matter how I type
> it I get an error.  Most common is either:
> 
> >>> os.chdir(C:\temp)
>   File "<string>", line 1
>      os.chdir(C:\temp)
> 		 ^
>  SyntaxError: invalid syntax

I don't use windows, so there might be another problem with what you're
trying to do.  However, one thing that struck me about it is that
os.chdir is usually passed a string.  E.g. you might want to try
something like os.chdir('C:\temp').

Alex.




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