Python 3.0+osfunction

os.getcwdb

os — working directory

Return the current working directory as bytes.

Syntax

os.getcwdb()

Use it when the directory name does not decode in the current filesystem encoding: you get the raw bytes. In ordinary code getcwd is enough — on Unix it keeps such names by mapping undecodable bytes to surrogates, and os.fsencode restores the original bytes. Since Python 3.8 Windows uses UTF-8 here.

Examples

import os
print(isinstance(os.getcwdb(), bytes))   # → True
print(os.path.isabs(os.getcwdb().decode()))   # → True (это абсолютный путь текущего каталога)
print(os.getcwdb().decode() == os.getcwd())  # → True (то же значение, только в str)
print([n.decode() for n in os.listdir(os.getcwdb())] == os.listdir(os.getcwd()))  # → True (байтовый путь даёт байтовые имена)
print(os.getcwdb() == os.getcwd())  # → False (bytes и str не равны никогда)

See also

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