On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 1:03 PM, kj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > How can a script know its absolute path? (__file__ only gives the > path it was used to invoke the script.) > > Basically, I'm looking for the Python equivalent of Perl's FindBin. > > The point of all this is to make the scripts location the reference > point for the location of other files, as part of a self-contained > distribution. > > TIA! > > Kynn > > --
Anything dealing with file paths is probably going to be in the os.path module. The function you are looking for is os.path.abspath(). http://docs.python.org/lib/module-os.path.html > > NOTE: In my address everything before the first period is backwards; > and the last period, and everything after it, should be discarded. > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
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