Am 01.10.2010 13:00, schrieb Sébastien Barthélemy: > Hello, > > I use a data file that lies on disk in the same directory that the > module which makes use of it. > > The data file is checked in the repository and gets installed by > the distutils ``package_data`` directive, so it is in place both > during development and after and install. > > In my program, I need to find the absolute path to this data file. > > I could think of 3 ways to do this: > 1. using the __path__ property in the module > 2. using __file__ property in the module > 3. using __file__ and os.getcwd() in the module
Use the abspath function of the os.path module: HERE = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)) Christian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list