Finding Script Directory

[Steve]

Isn't gmail really cool ?? here's one of the text links in the
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The link points to: http://www.faqs.org/docs/diveintopython/regression_path.html

I'm glad google's reading my mail :)

HTH
Steve
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On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 09:58:20 -0400, Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> wrote:
> Fuzzyman wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> I've seen twenty threads on this and I still don't know/recall
> whether there's 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.
>
> Actually, it's all you've got to work with.  On Linux and Windows,
> at least, it's got either just the script name, if you're running
> from the current directory, or a path (relative or absolute) to
> the directory where the script is run from.  It's like this whether
> py2exe'd or not, too.
>
> __file__ could be of assistance, but it doesn't exist when
> you've py2exe the thing...
>
> > 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 !!
>
> Yeah, sys.path isn't much good for this sort of thing.
>