%SystemDrive%

[rtilley]

Atanas Banov wrote:
> using
>    os.chdir('/')
>    os.getcwd()
> is plain wrong in Windows.
> 
> what it does is change the current directory to root of the CURRENT
> DRIVE (i.e. the drive of the directory where script was started from),
> not the system drive. for example, if current directory was
> c:\myscripts and system drive is d:, this will return c:\ and not d:\.
> hence chdir doesnt do any good

Thanks for the explanation. I'll use the environ feature of os... I just 
didn't realize it existed :)