Forcing Python to detect DocumentRoot

[Rodrick Brown]

On Friday, January 18, 2013, Ferrous Cranus wrote:

> Τη Πέμπτη, 17 Ιανουαρίου 2013 5:14:19 μ.μ. UTC+2, ο χρήστης Joel Goldstick
> έγραψε:
> > On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 9:09 AM, Roy Smith <r... at panix.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> >
> > In article <339d9d6d-b000-4cf3-8534-375e0c44b2ca at googlegroups.com<javascript:;>
> >,
> >
> >
> >
> >  Ferrous Cranus <nikos... at gmail.com <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > When trying to open an html template within Python script i use a
> relative
> >
> > > path to say go one folder back and open index.html
> >
> > >
> >
> > > f = open( '../' + page )
> >
> > >
> >
> > > How to say the same thing in an absolute way by forcing Python to
> detect
> >
> > > DocumentRoot by itself?
> >


$ export DOCUMENT_ROOT=${HOME}/public _html

Then from python os.environ['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] will have the relative path.

I hope this helps.


> >
> >
> > Can you give us more details of what you're doing.  Is there some web
> >
> > framework you're using?  Can you post some code that's not working for
> >
> > you?
> >
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> >
> > Import os
> >
> > Then read os.environ['HOME']
> >
> >
> > This will give you the home directory of the user.  in my case:
> >
> >
> > >>> os.environ['HOME']
> > '/home/jcg'
> > >>>
> >
> >
> > This is probably linux only, but that seems to be the environment you
> are working in .
>
> Yes my Python scripts exist in a linux web host.
>
> os.environ['HOME'] will indeed give the home directory of the user.
>
> to me /home/nikos/
>
> but i want a variable to point to
>
> /home/nikos/public_html whice is called DocumentRoot.
>
> is there avariable for that? i can't seem to find any...
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