what's the command for (cd ..) in python

Date	2011-09-09 14:07 +0200
Subject	what's the command for (cd ..) in python
From	kaustubh joshi <kandrjoshi@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
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Hello friends,
                         How do we carry out the command "*cd ..*" in
python?

My problem is :
I have a set of folders say m=1,2,3,4. In each of these folders, I have
subfolders with common name say m_5,m_6,m_7,m_8. In each of these subfolder,
there is a file which I have edit.
                                          1
         2                                    3
       4
                                         |
          |                                      |
            |

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                  1_5, 1_6, 1_7, 1_8               2_5 ,2_6,
2_7, 2_8           3_5, 3_6, 3_7, 3_8          4_5, 4_6, 4_7, 4_8

That is how I designed it

When I run my script, it follows the route 1 ---> 1_5-----> do the edit job
in the file. Now it need to change the  subfolder from 1_5 to 1_6, which is
not happening.

I created the folders using variable like m for folder taking values 1,2,3,4
and m_n for subfolders with n=5,6,7,8.

I am trying with os.chdir(path), but stuck with how to use m_n in it.

What I am missing at the moment is something that do the job "cd .." does.

Any help


Karan

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what's the command for (cd ..) in python kaustubh joshi <kandrjoshi@gmail.com> - 2011-09-09 14:07 +0200
  Re: what's the command for (cd ..) in python Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-09-09 23:03 +1000
    Re: what's the command for (cd ..) in python Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-09-09 13:35 -0400
    Re: what's the command for (cd ..) in python "Waldek M." <wm@localhost.localdomain> - 2011-09-10 12:32 +0200
      Re: what's the command for (cd ..) in python Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-09-10 21:11 +1000
        Re: what's the command for (cd ..) in python "Waldek M." <wm@localhost.localdomain> - 2011-09-10 15:57 +0200
          Re: what's the command for (cd ..) in python Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2011-09-11 09:50 +1000

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