How do I get the current path of my python file that is currently running.

rasmus matt.rasmus at gmail.com
Thu Aug 23 11:06:38 EDT 2007


On Aug 23, 3:33 am, Arnau Sanchez <ar... at ehas.org> wrote:
> Lamonte Harris escribió:
>
> > Say I start i click on a python file on my desktop, how could I return
> > the path of the current python file thats running?
>
> http://docs.python.org/lib/module-sys.html

Try this:

import sys
import os
print sys.argv[0]
print os.getcwd()

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sys.argv[0] should contain the name of the script as it was called.
os.getcwd() will return the current working directory, which may also
find helpful.

hope this helps.

Matt






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