Changing a shell's current directory with python

[Andy B.]

Many thanks for the sanity check.  Just wanted to check with the gurus
before heading down another path.

-A


On 12/18/05, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 15:53:11 -0800, "Andy B." <abuecker at gmail.com>
> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
>
> > I've got a python utility that I want to change my shell's current
> > directory based on criteria it finds.  I've scoured google and the
> > python cookbook and can't seem to figure out if this is even possible.
> >  So far, all my attempts have changed the current python session only.
> >  Am I going to have to wrap this in a shell script?
>
>         That's about all you will be able to achieve... the inheritance goes
> downwards: shell -> program(python, etc.) -> spawned processes
> (os.system, etc.)... Changes at one level are only picked up by things
> started after that change, and started from that level.
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