Function for the path of the script?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2013-10-27, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Gary Herron
><gary.herron at islandtraining.com> wrote:

>> Huh?  In what kind of a workflow are you running a python file without
>> knowing *what* file you are runnung?

I've been writing Python programs for 10+ years.  Never have I felt a
need to know the location of the file that's running.  I do sometimes
want to know the _name_ of the file (for multipurpose programs), but I
don't ever remember caring where that file was.

> It's very common to want to know what directory you're in - it's a
> good way to find data files.

>From a Unix point of view, that's also very wrong.  Data files don't
belong in the same directory as the executable.

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