On 14Sep2021 15:16, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: >Here I think we need to drop our perfectionist attitude. When I saw >Marc-Andre's proposal my first response was also "but what about threads." >But really, os.chdir() is the culprit here, and since it's a syscall we >can't fix it. If we can live with that, we can live with the proposed >os.workdir(). The docs just need a warning about threads. [...] >If we don't offer this in the stdlib, users will just implement this >themselves, poorly (for example, by not restoring the original when >done).
Agreed here. As long as it has a big clear warning about process global state. That is the beauty of libraries, to me: not just reuse, but a correct implementation is correct everywhere, and likewise a bugfix fixes all the things. Cheers, Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> _______________________________________________ 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/BLFDWLLFOMARR532GL7GRN3GUXL2S4SM/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
