Re: [Jython-users] OSError: [Errno 0] chdir not supported in Java?

[Samuele P. <pe...@in...>]

Have you seen that it requires 
a JNI lib?

Samuele Pedroni.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Dinu Gherman <gh...@da...>
To: Samuele Pedroni <pe...@in...>
Cc: <jyt...@so...>
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 9:01 AM
Subject: Re: [Jython-users] OSError: [Errno 0] chdir not supported in Java?


> Samuele Pedroni <ped...@bl...>:
> 
> > No this one is not a bug, 
> > chdir is not supported by Jython.
> > Because it is not supported by Java.
> > We could workaround
> > but there is no clear win in that.
> > 
> > It should be noted that while Jython is
> > an implementation of Python and
> > it is a goal that portable code 
> > between Python and Jython
> > (www.anygui.org is example) can be
> > written,
> > 
> > it is not a goal that Python code
> > written without thinking about Jython
> > can be always ported, especially
> > for shell-programming-like programs.
> > 
> > Jython is Python for Java as a platform
> > and tries to follow the platform philosophy
> > without workarounding too much.
> > 
> > So there are tasks for which Python
> > is good and Jython not so much,
> > changing this is a low priority thingy.
> > 
> > regards, Samuele Pedroni.
> 
> 
> Ciao Samuele,
> 
> I see this has been asked before already on this list.
> Sorry for not checking earlier! But I also see that it
> is not impossible to implement chdir and friends in 
> Java despite its security concerns as the following 
> should make clear:
> 
>   http://www.hio.hen.nl/java/nl/nl/hen/ict/unix/Unix.html
> 
> Needless to say, I'd opt for Jython being more similar
> to Python instead of Java, if for no other reason than 
> the higher similarity of the "Jython" string to "Python"
> than to "Java"! ;-)
> 
> Seriously, if it's possible to use chdir-like stuff why
> not add it and make both happy, Java people missing it
> *and* Python folks reusing their scripts...? Maybe some
> Java guys will be more inclined to being dragged over
> to Python?
> 
> Dinu
> 
>