changing directories from within the shell

[Daniel 'Dang' Griffith]

On Mon, 3 May 2004 09:27:09 -0400, Darren Dale <dd55 at cornell.edu>
wrote:

>I am sure this has been covered in the documentation, but I havent found 
>it. Could anyone tell me how to change directories from within the 
>python shell?

Or install IPython, and you can use "cd xyzzy", just like you were in
the usual command line shell.  (And a whole lot more!)
Details available at: http://ipython.scipy.org/
    --dang