[Python-ideas] os.listdir with current working directory as default

[Antoine Pitrou]

Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at ...> writes:
> 
> As soon as your program is working with the filesystem, and is
> navigating into it by calling APIs like os.chdir, os.getcwd, etc,
> you have good chances to end up calling os.listdir on the current
> directory, and specifying os.curdir becomes superfluous imho
> because you know you are in os.curdir.

You'd better be careful with it. The "current directory" is process-wide and so
modifying it in a thread will affect all other threads in your program. I'm not
saying all programs have this characteristic, but relying on the current
directory rather than explicit paths isn't always a good idea...

Regards

Antoine.