Question

I have had the following problem which both Google and the Python documentation cannot aid me.

Essentially, I want to be able to perform redirection at the command-line level using the subprocess library as in the following (using a shell script) so I can perform operations in that directory:

Example:

#!/usr/local/bin/python    

from subprocess import call
call("cd", "/usr/local/bin")

However, it doesn’t change to that directory. Does anyone know what I am missing? I will be most appreciative of any insight that anyone can give on this.

Thanks!

Answer 1

The shell started by subprocess.call() changes directory. And then it exits. Your script does not change directories. Try os.chdir() instead.