On Wednesday 11 May 2005 04:44 pm, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2005-05-11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The following script demonstrates a method that should work for you. I > > believe it is entirely cross-platform. > > > > #! /usr/bin/python > > > > import sys > > import os > > > > print os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(sys.argv[0])) > > That will probably work most of the time, but... > > 1) you're not gauranteed that argv[0] contains the application > path/filename. > > 2) the directory containing the executable is not where > configuration files are supposed to be stored under > Unix/Linux.
Thanks Grant, I live and develop in Linux, but unfortunately, 99.99% of the users of this particular application (analysis of medical laboratory data) will be working with Windows. I'm totally new to Python (obvious,yes?) so how might argv[0] fail? Jeff -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list