On 3 Nov, 04:21, klenwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I apologize in advance for coming at this from this angle but... > > In PHP you have the __FILE__ constant which gives you the value of the > absolute path of the file you're in (as opposed to the main script > file.) With the function dirname, this makes it easy to get the > parent dir of a particular file from within that file: > > $parent_dir = dirname(__FILE__); > > I'm looking for the best way to accomplish this in Python. This seems > to work: > > parent_dir = os.path.normpath(os.path.join(os.path.abspath(__file__), > '..')) > > Can anyone confirm the reliability of this method or suggest a better > (one-line) method for accomplishing this? > > Thanks, > Tom
This is not really 'one-line' since you have to import two modules first, but it looks nicer...: import sys, os print sys.argv[0] # absolute file name print os.path.dirname(sys.argv[0]) # absolute dir name -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
