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Asked: 2026-05-22T20:20:48+00:00

I have situation when the current directory becomes invalid (ie, when some program deletes

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I have situation when the current directory becomes invalid (ie, when some program deletes it). My Python script calls os.getcwd() which terminates with following exception

OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

Ideally, it my script would automatically cd into parent directory in such situation.
When is the recommended strategy for implementing this?

Note, if I try ls from the shell, I get ls: cannot open directory .: Stale NFS file handle

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  1. Editorial Team

    Ideally, it my script would automatically cd into parent directory in such situation. When is the recommended strategy for implementing this?

    Just use try/except block for that, that’s what for we have them 🙂

    try:
    os.getcwd()
except OSError:
    os.chdir("..")
    os.getcwd()

    or something similar…

    [edit] Anyway I guess such situation is realy bad for your app – deleted dir, or broken NFS connection etc, and this probably should not be silienced by just change dir – it depends on app of course…

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