Changing a shell's current directory with python
Lawrence Oluyede
raims at dot.com
Sun Dec 18 19:08:30 EST 2005
irIl 2005-12-18, Andy B. <abuecker at gmail.com> ha scritto:
> 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?
>
> % pwd
> /var/tmp
> % myutil.py
> # do some stuff and cd to '/var/log'
> % pwd
> /var/log
Just look in the library:
import os
os.chdir("path")
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