Finding Script Directory

[Larry Bates]

Would os.curdir() help?  It as least tells you the
current directory.  My solution to what I think is
your problem is to put an installdirectory= statement
in my configuration file that gets updated when the
application is installed.  That way I always know
where the script is installed.  I use Inno Installer
and it is very easy to update configuration files
during installation.

HTH,
Larry Bates
Syscon, Inc.

"Fuzzyman" <michael at foord.net> wrote in message
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> What's the best, cross platform, way of finding out the directory a
> script is run from ?
>
> I've googled a bit, but can't get a clear answer.
>
> On sys.argv[0] the docs say :
> argv[0] is the script name (it is operating system dependent whether
> this is a full pathname or not).
>
> So this doesn't seem to be the answer.
>
> The script directory is always *somewhere* in sys.path - but not
> always in position 0. If you use py2exe then sys.path[0] is the
> zipfile it does the imports from !!
>
> Regards,
>
> Fuzzy
>
> http://www.voidspace.org.uk/atlantibots/pythonutils.html