Python method getcwd() returns the current working directory of a process.
Following is the syntax for getcwd() method:
cwd = os.getcwd()
This method returns the current working directory of a process.
The following example shows the usage of getcwd() method.
#!/usr/bin/python import os, sys # First go to the "/var/www/html" directory os.chdir("/var/www/html" ) # Print current working directory print "Current working dir : %s" % os.getcwd() # Now open a directory "/tmp" fd = os.open( "/tmp", os.O_RDONLY ) # Use os.fchdir() method to change the dir os.fchdir(fd) # Print current working directory print "Current working dir : %s" % os.getcwd() # Close opened directory. os.close( fd )
When we run the above program, it produces the following result:
Current working dir : /var/www/html Current working dir : /tmp
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