I also really like this idea. Though I wonder if it might be a better fit for `contextlib` rather than `os`? Can see arguments both ways (and it's a minor detail, anyway).
Alex > On 14 Sep 2021, at 20:55, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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/
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