Changing a shell's current directory with python

[Andy B.]

I've got a python utility that I want to change my shell's current
directory based on criteria it finds. I've scoured google and the
python cookbook and can't seem to figure out if this is even possible.
So far, all my attempts have changed the current python session only.
Am I going to have to wrap this in a shell script?

% pwd
/var/tmp
% myutil.py
# do some stuff and cd to '/var/log'
% pwd
/var/log

Many thanks,

-A

[Lawrence Oluyede]

irIl 2005-12-18, Andy B. <ab******@gmail.com> ha scritto:

I've got a python utility that I want to change my shell's current
directory based on criteria it finds. I've scoured google and the
python cookbook and can't seem to figure out if this is even possible.
So far, all my attempts have changed the current python session only.
Am I going to have to wrap this in a shell script?

% pwd
/var/tmp
% myutil.py
# do some stuff and cd to '/var/log'
% pwd
/var/log

Just look in the library:

import os
os.chdir("path")
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[Andy B.]

Many thanks for the sanity check. Just wanted to check with the gurus
before heading down another path.

-A
On 12/18/05, Dennis Lee Bieber <wl*****@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 15:53:11 -0800, "Andy B." <ab******@gmail.com>
declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:

I've got a python utility that I want to change my shell's current
directory based on criteria it finds. I've scoured google and the
python cookbook and can't seem to figure out if this is even possible.
So far, all my attempts have changed the current python session only.
Am I going to have to wrap this in a shell script?

That's about all you will be able to achieve... the inheritance goes
downwards: shell -> program(python, etc.) -> spawned processes
(os.system, etc.)... Changes at one level are only picked up by things
started after that change, and started from that level.
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