[TriZPUG] identity crisis

[John Strickler]

os.getcwd() only reports the current working directory of the script. If
the script is launched from somewhere else, it reports the "somewhere
else". That is, if you cd to /tmp, and run /some/where/else/myapp.py,
getcwd() returns "/tmp", which won't help with Laura's problem.

I can't make __file__ have a null string on my Linux box, but for all other
cases you can use os.path.abspath(), which will provide the full path given
a relative path.

--John Strickler



On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Steve Gambino <stevegambino at gmail.com>wrote:

> Laura,
>
> import os
> os.getcwd()  # will return the current working directory
>
> Is that what you are looking for?
> Steve
>
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>
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> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Laura Tateosian <lgtateos at ncsu.edu> wrote:
>
>> I'd like to get the path of the current file, so that I can append the
>> sys.path and then import user-defined modules based on relative paths.
>>
>> sys.argv[0] can do this. But sometimes it returns just the file base name
>> or an empty string, depending on how the script is run. The same goes for
>> __file__
>>
>> Is there a simple reliable approach for determining the full path file
>> name of the script I'm inside?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Laura
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