How to read the directory which the actively running python file is located in?

[John Machin]

anders wrote:
> in os module there is many funktion/methods to extract this information
> to ask the path to the current running pythonprogram you can do likes
> this
>
> ----- CUT-----------
> import os
> print os.getcwd()
>
> ----- CUT ------
>
> // Anders
>
>
> Michael Malinowski skrev:
>
> > Is there a way to read the directory that the currently running python file
> > is located in?
> > Cheers
> > Mike.

os.getcwd() provides the "current working directory". This is *not*
necessarily the directory that the "currently running python file"
[whatever that means] is located in.

Try picking what you really want/need out of this:

C:\junk\foo>type ..\where.py
import sys, os
if __name__ == "__main__":
    print "running as script"
else:
    print "imported module named", __name__
print "code loaded from file", __file__
print "sys.argv[0] is", sys.argv[0]
print "cwd is", os.getcwd()

C:\junk\foo>..\where.py
running as script
code loaded from file C:\junk\where.py
sys.argv[0] is C:\junk\where.py
cwd is C:\junk\foo

C:\junk\foo>type runwhere.py
import sys
sys.path[0:0] = ['c:\\junk']
import where

C:\junk\foo>runwhere.py
imported module named where
code loaded from file c:\junk\where.py
sys.argv[0] is C:\junk\foo\runwhere.py
cwd is C:\junk\foo

C:\junk\foo>cd ..

C:\junk>md bar

C:\junk>cd bar

C:\junk\bar>..\foo\runwhere.py
imported module named where
code loaded from file c:\junk\where.pyc
sys.argv[0] is C:\junk\foo\runwhere.py
cwd is C:\junk\bar

HTH,
John