os.chdir

rbossy at jouy.inra.fr rbossy at jouy.inra.fr
Sat Mar 8 09:49:46 EST 2008


Quoting "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de>:

> >> os.chdir("~/dir1")
> >
> > It is not mentioned in the documentation but I'm pretty sure os.dir()
> doesn't do
> > tilde expansion since this is usually performed by a shell.
> >
> > You should use instead:
> >
> > os.chdir(os.join(os.environ['HOME'], 'dir1'))
>
> Or
>
> os.chdir(os.path.expanduser("~/dir1"))

Well... duh!
Thanks for reminding me.
Cheers,
RB



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