On Sep 24, 2009, at 8:27 AM, Jonathan Lundell wrote:
>
> On Sep 24, 2009, at 7:40 AM, pwoolf wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the suggestion Yarko. Here is the script attached.
>
> A small correction. I'm doubtful that
>
> os.system("cd ~/")
>
> will work as you expect, since it's going to change the directory in a
> child process, and not affect the caller's environment (or the
> environment of the subsequent child processes).
>
> Instead, use
>
> os.chdir(os.path.expanduser("~/"))
For similar reasons, this won't work as expected:
os.system("source .bash_profile")
Also, you're creating .bash, but sourcing .bash_profile. Is that what
you intend? Suggestion: bind some of these literal strings to variable
names so you don't keep repeating them and taking the chance of making
a mistake.
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