[Baypiggies] Locating the directory you are executing from

[Daryl Spitzer]

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote:

>  First of all, please do not top-post:

I'm tempted to blame Gmail.  (Which makes it natural to do this.)  But
since I wrote:

> > I don't put "." on the path either, but I'm curious why you use the
> > word "never".  (I guess I haven't learned why the hard way.)

I referred to your email, I should have quoted:

>  >>  <shudder>  ...and "." never should be on the path.

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> also wrote:

>  As for your question, I assume that you wanted it sent to the group;

Yes.  I've been bit more than once because the reply-to address is not
set to baypiggies at python.org on this mailing list.

> ...I don't answer private questions, generally speaking:
>
>  http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/faq/part2/section-13.html

Thanks.  That's exactly what I should have looked for myself.  ;-)

--
Daryl


On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 07, 2008, Daryl Spitzer wrote:
>  > On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 8:17 AM, Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote:
>  >> On Wed, May 07, 2008, Shannon -jj Behrens wrote:
>  >>>
>  >>> Furthermore, if you run your script like "$ script.py", and it runs
>  >>> because "." is in $PATH, I'm guessing that argv[0] won't have the full
>  >>> path, but __file__ will.  (By the way, "." is not in my path.)
>  >>
>  >>  <shudder>  ...and "." never should be on the path.
>  >
>
> > I don't put "." on the path either, but I'm curious why you use the
>  > word "never".  (I guess I haven't learned why the hard way.)
>
>  First of all, please do not top-post:
>
>  A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
>  Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
>  A: Top-posting.
>  Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet?
>
>  As for your question, I assume that you wanted it sent to the group; I
>  don't answer private questions, generally speaking:
>
>  http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/faq/part2/section-13.html
>  --
>
>
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