How can I open a Python shell at a network path in Windows?

Question

How can I open a Python interpreter at a specific network path in Windows?

In the Explorer address bar the path is in UNC form: \\myhost\myshare\....

I can't work out how to change to this directory from the Windows command line, nor in what format I could pass it as an argument to os.chdir.

I'm running Python 2.5 on Windows XP. IDLE is installed.

Thanks!

Answer 1

You need to map it as a drive.

Answer 2

hope this helps : http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2008/05/12/mapping-drives-on-windows/

EDIT :

for root, dirs, files in os.walk(r'\\myhost\myshare\'):
    print root, dirs

Answer 3

Well, I'm going to ask it anyway because it has bit me before but have you tried something like this?

path = r'\myhost\myshare\some_file.dat'

The r being the important bit here. See this post as well: http://bytes.com/topic/python/answers/29322-unc-paths-file-object-open