[Python-ideas] chdir context manager (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sat Jan 19 15:57:47 CET 2013


-1 from me

I consider caring about the current directory to be an anti-pattern - paths should be converted to absolute ASAP, and for invocation of other tools that care about the current directory, that's why the subprocess APIs accept a "cwd" argument. I certainly don't want to encourage people to unnecessarily rely on global state by providing a standard library context manager that makes it easier to do so.

Regards, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia



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