Evan Simpson evan at 4-am.com
Sun Feb 6 13:13:50 EST 2000

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Patrick K Moorman <khadji at pld.com> wrote in message
news:Bmin4.4589$NS3.14557 at newsfeed.slurp.net...
> I know this is must be an easy one but how do I use os.chdir?  I have
tried
> many different ways of listing the path but no matter how I type it I get
an
> error.  Most common is either:
>
> >>> os.chdir(C:\temp)
>   File "<string>", line 1
>      os.chdir(C:\temp)

Is your previous experience coding with shell scripts or a language like
Rebol?  You will need to adjust some of your basic concepts for Python.

In Python you need to put quotes around text which is not a keyword or a
name for a Python object.  Also, backslashes ('\') are used to "escape" the
next character, so '\t' is a tab character.  Fortunately, Python file
functions accept forward-slashed filenames on all platforms.

For the above you would write either:

os.chdir('C:/temp')
...or...
os.chdir("C:/temp")

Cheers,

Evan @ digicool

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