The folder a script is executed in

Bjoern Schliessmann usenet-mail-0306.20.chr0n0ss at spamgourmet.com
Tue Aug 21 05:47:50 EDT 2007


Ant wrote:

> Do you mean the folder containing the script? Or the current
> working directory?
> 
> If the former, then look at os.path.split(sys.argv[0])[0]

test.py:
| #!/usr/bin/env python
| import sys,os
| print os.path.split(sys.argv[0])[0]

$ cd tmp
~/tmp$ ../test.py 
..
~/tmp$ 

That's rather not what's intended. I'd try os.path.abspath(__file__)
instead.

Regards,


Björn

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