Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: As for use cases, I have used it quite commonly in test scripts in order to find out the base directory of the source tree (and/or other resources such as data files).
e.g.: basepath = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__))) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11344> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com