Getting original working directory

[Steve Holden]

rave247 rave247 wrote:
> If I could use os.getcwd() or save the value to some variable before calling os.chdir()
 > I would do it, believe me. However I can't because it is the part of 
code where I
 > can't do any changes.
> 
> Also I do not agree that such thing is not possible because after python script
 > finishes its work, it naturally gets back into the original location 
from where
 > you started the script (in shell you are in the original location 
after script
 > finishes). So this information has to be stored somewhere (probably 
in shell which
 > runs the interpreter) and there *must*  be a way how to get it. 
Simply after
 > calling os.chdir() the original value doen't disappear, I think it 
just needs
 >  some nice hack if python doesn't provide a way how to get it.
> 
Python runs as a sub-process. The parent process (the one that started 
Python) contains the working directory that the Python interpreter 
inherited from it. But you can't expect to just go poking around inside 
the environment of your parent process, which will typically be waiting 
for you to finish before it continues. Why *must* there be a way to get 
at its current directory? Once it continues, of course, it does so in 
the same directory. If you want to hack into your parent process to find 
that information that's up to you, but Python certainly has no special 
mechanism  for doing it.

If you treat the answers to all your questions with so little respect 
it's a wonder you bother asking the questions in the first place.

You didn't even explain what the relationship was between the "myscript" 
that you want to run and the Python code that you want to switch back to 
the original working directory. Sorry, we aren't mind readers (though 
some of the guys on this list get close on occasion).

regards
  Steve
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