On 15Sep2021 07:50, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 7:43 AM Cameron Simpson <cs@cskk.id.au> wrote:
>> I know I'm atypical, but I have quite a lot of multithreaded stuff,
>> including command line code. So while it'd be ok to avoid this context
>> manager for my own code, I fear library modules, either stdlib or pypi,
>> quietly using this in their code, making them unuseable in the general
>> case. Unrepairably unuseable, for the user.
>
>Library code shouldn't be changing the working directory, context
>manager or not. That belongs to the application.

Entirely agree.

I'm concerned that convenient stackable chdir is a bug magnet, and would
creep into library code. Maybe not in the stdlib, but there's no point
writing such a context manager if it isn't goingg to be used, and
therefore it could get used in library code. Imagine when a popular pypi
module starts using it internally and breaks a multithreaded app
previously relying on it?