[Tutor] ctypes question

[Joel Goldstick]

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 4:09 AM, ALAN GAULD <alan.gauld at btinternet.com>wrote:

> > When I use os.chdir (by the way: why on earth isn't this called
> os.setcwd()??
> > That's consistent with os.getcwd())
>
> History.
> They are Unix commands (and possibly Multics/PDP before that!).
> cd has been the command in almost every CLI OS I've ever used from
> CP/M thru' OS/9, Unix, DOS,  etc...
>
> The only exceptions being VAX/VMS(uses 'set def') and OS/390 on
> a mainframe which doesn't use a directory based file system.
>
> That doesn't mean Python shouldn't adopt a more consistent naming
> scheme it's just that the folks building it simply transferred the names
> of the commands that they were familiar with. Its a self perpetuating
> habit... :-)
>
> Alan G.
>
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I'm glad to see you got the result you wanted.  But, by moving your current
working directory to the library's directory seems like it could cause other
problems with the code.  I don't do python on windows, and have unremembered
a lot I used to know about windows.  So, my question is, isn't there another
way to do this?

-- 
Joel Goldstick
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