[Tutor] Working Directory

[Russell Bungay]

Hello,

Just before I start, thankyou everyone, I have been reading Tutor for
months now, and have extracted much useful information from it, groovy.

I am currently working on a little app and am having difficulties with
finding out about what directory I am working in.  I need this
information for two reasons, 1.  for the creation and use of a
ConfigParser object and related file. 2.  To import a module held in the
same directory as the module that I am currently working on.

I am aware 2.  is not a pretty reason for using this information, I
should be sticking the imported module somewhere more sensible, using
packages for example, but I haven't read up on such things yet (my shiny
new copy of Programming Python came in the post yesterday), and thought
that as I needed the same stuff for 1.  I might as well reuse it.

Solutions then:

os.getcwd() won't always return the directory in which my main module is
hiding.
I don't want to hard code the directory in, for obvious reasons.
I can't think of a way in which passing the directory as an command line
argument will guarantee precision.
I am perhaps missing the obvious function that will tell what I need?

All help gratefully received :o)

Thankyou very much,

Russell
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