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

Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek@...> 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.