On Tue, 14 Sept 2021 at 20:44, Marc-Andre Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> wrote: > > I sometimes write Python scripts which need to work in specific > work directories. > > When putting such code into functions, the outer function typically > does not expect the current work dir (CWD) to be changed, so wrap the > code which need the (possibly) modified CWD using a simply context > manager along the lines of: > > class workdir: > def __init__(self, dir): > self.dir = dir > def __enter__(self): > self.curdir = os.getcwd() > os.chdir(self.dir) > def __exit__(self, *exc): > os.chdir(self.curdir) > return False > > Would there be interest in adding something like this to the os module > as os.workdir() ?
I've needed (and implemented my own version of) this often enough that I'd be in favour of it. Of course, as you show, it's not hard to write it yourself, so I can live with it not getting implemented, too :-) Paul _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/I6YFWYNUAV7G6DNPZTBJ6T3SGJDPGBJL/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
