> When I use os.chdir (by the way: why on earth isn't this called os.setcwd()?? > That's consistent with os.getcwd())
History. They are Unix commands (and possibly Multics/PDP before that!). cd has been the command in almost every CLI OS I've ever used from CP/M thru' OS/9, Unix, DOS, etc... The only exceptions being VAX/VMS(uses 'set def') and OS/390 on a mainframe which doesn't use a directory based file system. That doesn't mean Python shouldn't adopt a more consistent naming scheme it's just that the folks building it simply transferred the names of the commands that they were familiar with. Its a self perpetuating habit... :-) Alan G.
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