Placing directory in a function

[mmaz67]

Hi i am currently trying to put 2 directories that i am going to use in 2 different functions.

These are the location:
/disks/user/mmaz/mmaz05/rundir
/disks/user/mmaz/mmaz05/in_file

The script is currently in /disks/user/mmaz/mmaz05/rundir. I am having problem with the second function on how do i go one level up to /in_file directory?

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#!/usr/bin/python   import os import os.path   myPWD = os.getcwd()   def run_directory( str ):     print str     return       def infile_directory (str ):     #need to go one step up to infile directory     print str     return   run_dir = run_directory(myPWD) infile_dir = infile_directory(myPWD)

[snippsat]

how do i go one level up to /in_file directory?

You can use os.chdir("..")
Can also use pathlib which has a parent method.

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>>> from pathlib import Path, PurePath >>> >>> p = PurePath(Path.cwd()) >>> p PurePosixPath('/home/mint') >>> p.parent PurePosixPath('/home')

[mmaz67]

Thanks, I tried using os.chdir("..") and its working !!

[volcano63]

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...... def run_directory( str ):     print str     return ......

str is python built-in function - it is not recommended to use standard names as variable/argument names