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From: Sergi Pasoev <s.pasoev@gmail.com>
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Subject: how can I implement "cd" like shell in Python?
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 15:09:14 +0400
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Do you mean to implement the cd command ? To what extent do you want to
implement it ? if what you want is just to have a script to change the
current working directory, it is as easy as this:


import sys
import os
os.chdir(sys.argv[1])

plus you could add some error-handling code.