Re: [Fab-user] lcd seems broken

[Paul Hoffman]

Thanks, that makes sense. Well, it's completely weird from a programming standpoint, but once explained, I can see where it might be useful.

--Paul Hoffman

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 2:48 PM, Peter Sanchez <address@hidden> wrote:

Yes. It's expected. Fabric doesn't evaluate the context until a fabric "command" is actually run. See:

https://github.com/fabric/fabric/blob/master/fabric/context_managers.py#L309

On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Paul Hoffman <address@hidden> wrote:

...but maybe it is just me.

print(os.getcwd())

with lcd("/usr/bin"):

  print(os.getcwd())

...prints the same location name twice, and it is clear that the cd didn't happen.

print(os.getcwd())

with lcd("/does/not/exist"):
  print(os.getcwd())

...prints the same location name twice. lcd doesn't throw an error, which I would have thought it would.

Is this what is expected?

--Paul Hoffman

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