How to get full path to script?

[kj]

In <mailman.228.1213022580.1044.python-list at python.org> "Mike Driscoll" <kyosohma at gmail.com> writes:

>For my compiled scripts, I usually use this variation:

>path = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(sys.argv[0])))

Thanks.  But why the os.path.join()?  (BTW, I did read the docs
before posting, but they make no sense to me; they say that
os.path.join joins "one or more path components intelligently",
but what does it mean to join *one* component?)

Kynn

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