On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 9:09 AM, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: > In article <339d9d6d-b000-4cf3-8534-375e0c44b...@googlegroups.com>, > Ferrous Cranus <nikos.gr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > When trying to open an html template within Python script i use a > relative > > path to say go one folder back and open index.html > > > > f = open( '../' + page ) > > > > How to say the same thing in an absolute way by forcing Python to detect > > DocumentRoot by itself? > > Can you give us more details of what you're doing. Is there some web > framework you're using? Can you post some code that's not working for > you? > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
Import os Then read os.environ['HOME'] This will give you the home directory of the user. in my case: >>> os.environ['HOME'] '/home/jcg' >>> This is probably linux only, but that seems to be the environment you are working in . -- Joel Goldstick http://joelgoldstick.com
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