Simple Qu: Changing directory

[Michael Hudson]

Nick Bower <nick.bower at ssec.wisc.edu> writes:

> I feel really dumb asking this question, but how do I change the current
> working directory?  For browsing the file system I mean.
> 
> I've found exec commands, but these would surely be device dependent and
> there doesn't seem to be anything obvious in the os or os.path
> documentation.  i looked through the tutorials too.
> 
> thanks in advance, nick

os.chdir?

as in

Python 1.5.2 (#1, May 11 1999, 11:42:00)  [GCC egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)] on linux2
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
>>> os.chdir('/')
>>> os.getcwd()
'/'
>>> print os.chdir.__doc__
chdir(path) -> None
Change the current working directory to the specified path.
>>> os.chdir('~')
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '~'
>>> os.chdir(os.path.expand'~')
os.path.expanduser  os.path.expandvars
>>> os.chdir(os.path.expanduser('~'))
>>> os.getcwd()
'/home/mwh21'
>>> 

HTH
Michael