Jive> But isn't there a way to change directories (cd) from the Python Jive> command line? Yes, you can execute os.chdir: >>> import os >>> os.getcwd() '/home/skip/tmp' >>> os.chdir("/tmp") >>> os.getcwd() '/tmp' -- Skip Montanaro (skip at pobox.com) http://www.mojam.com/ http://www.musi-cal.com/