chdir questions
Kannan Vijayan
kvijayan at peri.csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Sun Feb 6 16:21:54 EST 2000
Alex <alex at somewhere.round.here> wrote:
>> 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.
Actually it would be:
os.chdir('c:\\temp') # need to watch those backslashes
-kannan
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