Path ... where is my application's home dir?

[Peter Hansen]

Batista, Facundo wrote:

> [Marco Aschwanden]
> 
> #- I want to store a file in the application directory. What is
> #- the easiest
> #- way to figure out, where my application is situated?
> 
> You don't need that, just save it without a path and it'll fall in your 
> current directory.

But what if the current directory is not the same as "where my
application is situated"?

> But if you need it for something else:
> 
>  >>> import os.path
>  >>> os.path.curdir
> '.'
>  >>> os.path.abspath(os.path.curdir)
> 'C:\\temp'

That looks a lot like a complicated way to spell 'os.getcwd()'  :-)