command prompt change dir

[Tim Roberts]

"Peter Vestergaard" <posselt at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>Probably a simple question but I have not been able to find out how:
>I want my python script to generate a path based on some simple lookups and
>then change my path so that when the script exits my command prompt (from
>which I launched the script) is standing at this path. The path already
>exists.
>I have tried chdir(path), system('cd '+path) and many others but none
>changes my actual path.

How many times do you need to do this?  You can set the PATH environment
variable and spawn off a new copy of cmd.exe, which will inherit your
modified environment.
-- 
- Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
  Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.