Finding startup files

[Grant Edwards]

On 2005-05-11, hemagician at gmail.com <hemagician at gmail.com> wrote:
> The following script demonstrates a method that should work for you. I
> believe it is entirely cross-platform.
>
> #! /usr/bin/python
>
> import sys
> import os
>
> print os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(sys.argv[0]))

That will probably work most of the time, but...

 1) you're not gauranteed that argv[0] contains the application
    path/filename.

 2) the directory containing the executable is not where
    configuration files are supposed to be stored under
    Unix/Linux.

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