[Pythonmac-SIG] mac.chdir ?

[Just van Rossum]

At 11:56 AM -0500 10/27/98, Steven D. Majewski wrote:
>I would love it if we could find a place in the standard library
>for a function that does the following one liner:
>
>os.chdir( macfs.GetDirectory()[0].as_pathname() )
>
>Only problem: I don't know where it should go. macfs seems the
>logical place, however, it's a builtin, not a .py file module.
>
>
>Alternatively: maybe a better way of linking the "current directory"
>returned by os.getcwd() and used by other Python file functions with
>the "magic" placeholder use by the Mac standard file dialogs.
>
>( If there's any interest in the latter solution, I'll look up
>  what we changed in XlispStat to make it track better. However,
>  that only works if the Mac Control Panel is set to "Take me to
>  folder set by the application" )

There is function in macfs that was planned to do what you want, it's
called SetFolder(). Bad thing is: it doesn't work anymore. It used to be
that you
had to fiddle with LMSetCurDirStore and friends but now Apple reccommends
to do it with a filter function in CustomGetFile(), which is kind of a pain
from a Python perspective. I don't know what we should do, but I'd love to
see that functionality as well.

Just