newbie, relative path

[Andrei Kulakov]

On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 13:01:08 GMT, Marcus Stojek <stojek at part-gmbh.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> 2 little questions.:
> 
> 1.
> I have a small script that uses an .ini file for configuration. How
> can I open the file config.ini that is in the same dir as the script
> itself? (script dir is changing)
> 
> config=open("?????config.ini","r")

Generally speaking, conf files are kept in a path that's hard-coded in a
script, e.g.:

conf_file = os.path.expanduser("~/.myprog.conf")

Afaik, there is no elegant/easy way to determine where the script that's
being executed is located at, and there's no need for that, really. You
should keep the conf file in homedir, as a hidden file, that was it's easy
to edit whenever you want to make a change.

Oh, I just realized you use windows.. well, just make some dir that $HOME
would point to (normally c:\windows?), and have the conf file there,
there's no reason why conf file should be in the same dir with the
script..

> 
> 2.
> I am pretty sure that I have read somewhere that it is possible
> to link the Python Interpreter and everthing together and make
> a binary executabel (WIN) from the script. I don't find this in
> "Programming Python" or "Learning Python" any more.

There's a few, the most well known one I think is py2exe.

> 
> Is it possible and where can I find a description?
> 
> Thanks again.
> 
> Marcus



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