Oct 25, 2017 · How to set the current working directory? [duplicate] Asked 16 years, 2 months ago Modified 3 years, 2 months ago Viewed 1.3m times

cd is the shell command to change the working directory. What is the equivalent in Python?

The problem is that crontab runs the script from a different working directory, so trying to open ./log/bar.log fails. Is there a nice way to tell the script to change the working directory to the script's …

I am using Python 3.2 on Windows 7. When I open the Python shell, how can I know what the current directory is? How can I change it to another directory (where my modules are)?

Dec 27, 2013 · I made a folder on my desktop with the name "headfirstpython" and I need to change my current working directory to that folder and to the sub folder inside of it. I used os.getcwd() to get the …

Feb 21, 2014 · In the myproject.py I have to import some txt files and plot them. os.getcwd () gives the directory which python uses. I want to set the directory in which the python file is, as working directory.

How do I determine: the current directory (where I was in the shell when I ran the Python script), and where the Python file I am executing is?

Jul 27, 2016 · How do I execute a Python file with the debugger and specify the working directory for the run?

Jun 26, 2019 · The second setting solves this, which allows you to set the working directory to the python file's path even when you choose to run code outside of the terminal.

Apr 30, 2018 · The PYTHONPATH is an environment variable which you can set to add additional directories where python will look for modules and packages. If you need to set working directory for …