I tested my solution on python 2.5, 2.8 and 3.1 and everything seems working well
- Gennadiy <gennad.zlo...@gmail.com> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Duncan Booth <duncan.booth@invalid.invalid>wrote: > Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > > > On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 02:25:46 -0700, Alexander Schatten wrote: > > > >> is there an easy way (API) to get the directory of the currently running > >> script? > > > > import __main__ > > import os > > print os.path.dirname(__main__.__file__) > > > That code is pretty version specific: > > In older versions of Python you may have to convert __main__.__file__ to an > absolute path (I'm not sure what 2.6 does as I don't have it to hand, but > 2.5 and earlier could have a relative path). > > In Python 3.x the print will break. > > Also, any version can also fail if the code using it is called from an > interactive session as __main__ doesn't always have a __file__ attribute. > > So for the paranoid you might use: > > print(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath( > getattr(__main__,'__file__','__main__.py')))) > > which falls back to giving you the current directory from a script (and > might be what you want if you haven't changed it since the script started). > > -- > Duncan Booth http://kupuguy.blogspot.com > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
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