Matthew Wilson wrote:
When a python package includes data files like templates or images,
what is the orthodox way of referring to these in code?
I'm working on an application installable through the Python package
index. Most of the app is just python code, but I use a few jinja2
templates. Today I realized that I'm hardcoding paths in my app. They
are relative paths based on os.getcwd(), but at some point, I'll be
running scripts that use this code, these open(...) calls will fail.
I found several posts that talk about using __file__ and then walking
to nearby directories.
I also came across pkg_resources, and that seems to work, but I don't
think I understand it all yet.
Matt
sys.path[0] should give you the path to your script. By reading the
documentation I would say it would give the path to the first script
passed to the interpreter at launch, but after using it I find it also
gives the current script path inside an imported file. So I use it to
group the script files in my application into subdirectories, and import
them as necessary from there.
My app works regardless of the current working directory, and can import
scripts and load icons from its various subdirectories.
Still I would like to know why it works in imported scripts, since the
doc page says sys.path[0] is the path to the script that caused the
interpreter to launch. What would that mean ?
Timothy Madden
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