get directory name of file being executed

[Bernhard Herzog]

Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> writes:

>     David> I'm doing this:
> 
>     David> /usr/bin/python2 /some/script/in/a/dir/foo.py
> 
>     David> I want to get "/some/script/in/a/dir/", not the cwd of where I
>     David> launched the script from.
[...]
> 
> Inside foo.py you have a global variable __file__.

Not with Python 2.2.x, unfortunately. This will work with 2.3, though.

   Bernhard

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