Locating Relative Resource Files

[Don Garrett]

  Thanks! 

  I feel almost embarrassed for not thinking of this, but
working in Windows (instead of Unix) throws me off a beat. This
is solving my problem perfectly!

Gordon McMillan wrote:
> 
> [posted and mailed]
> 
> Don Garrett wrote:
> 
> >   Is there some way to determine the location of the file from which
> > the currently executing source was loaded? Or the file/directory of
> > the initial python script?
> 
> os.path.dirname(sys.argv[0]) should do it (although it may be '',
> meaning os.getcwd() is the script's directory).
> 
> - Gordon

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