Changing Working Directory in Windows

[pekka niiranen]

You could try playing with pythonwin's commandline:

import os
 >>> os.getcwd()
'E:\\Python22\\lib\\site-packages'
 >>> os.chdir('..')
 >>> os.getcwd()
'E:\\Python22\\lib'
 >>> newpath = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), 'mydirectory', 'myfile.txt')
 >>> print newpath
E:\Python22\lib\mydirectory\myfile.txt

-pekka-


nrk at cmcorp.com wrote:

>I'm brand new to Python.  Can someone tell me how to change a working
>directory in a script on a Windows system?
>
>What does the pathname specification look like?
>Can I use an absolute path name when referring to a file?
>
>Thanks for any help you can give me.
>
>Norm Kashdan
>