Finding the path to a file

[Trent Mick]

[Todd Johnson wrote]
> So basically, I want to know how to find the directory
> my script is in, even when it is invoked from another
> directory. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

The __file__ global is there for that. Note that in some versions of
Python (<= 2.2 maybe) __file__ was not defined with
__name__=="__main__". If you are running one of these versions of Python
then add this snippet in your module:
    
    if __name__ == "__main__":
        import sys
        __file__ = sys.argv[0]

    # __file__ is now the fullpath to your script

Cheers,
Trent

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Trent Mick
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