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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2010-11-26 18:26:04 (GMT)
committerGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2010-11-26 18:26:04 (GMT)
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Merged revisions 86794,86798,86801 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k ........ r86794 | georg.brandl | 2010-11-26 12:50:13 +0100 (Fr, 26 Nov 2010) | 1 line #10526: fix typo. ........ r86798 | georg.brandl | 2010-11-26 13:05:48 +0100 (Fr, 26 Nov 2010) | 1 line #10420: fix docs of bdb.effective(). ........ r86801 | georg.brandl | 2010-11-26 13:12:14 +0100 (Fr, 26 Nov 2010) | 1 line Better example for os.system(): do not change the system time. ........
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@@ -14,11 +14,11 @@ The :mod:`os` module provides dozens of functions for interacting with the
operating system::
>>> import os
- >>> os.system('time 0:02')
- 0
>>> os.getcwd() # Return the current working directory
'C:\\Python26'
- >>> os.chdir('/server/accesslogs')
+ >>> os.chdir('/server/accesslogs') # Change current working directory
+ >>> os.system('mkdir today') # Run the command mkdir in the system shell
+ 0
Be sure to use the ``import os`` style instead of ``from os import *``. This
will keep :func:`os.open` from shadowing the built-in :func:`open` function which