[Python-ideas] chdir context manager (original) (raw)
Oleg Broytman phd at phdru.name
Sat Jan 19 15:02:19 CET 2013
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On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 01:46:26PM +0000, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Daniel Shahaf <d.s at ...> writes:
> Joao S. O. Bueno wrote on Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 10:17:57 -0200: > > with tempdir("/tmp"): > > # things that perform in /tmp > > # directory is restored. > > +1 I implemented this in distlib as: @contextlib.contextmanager def chdir(d): cwd = os.getcwd() try: os.chdir(d) yield finally: os.chdir(cwd) which could perhaps be placed in shutil, so usage would be: with shutil.chdir('newdir'): # work with newdir as current dir # directory restored when you get here.
Pushd or pushdir would be a better name, IMHO.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pushd_and_popd
Quite a known pair of names.
Oleg.
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