On 16 Jan 2013, at 13:51, Ferrous Cranus <nikos.gr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> When trying to open an html template within Python script i use a relative > path to say go one folder back and open index.html > > f = open( '../' + page ) > > How to say the same thing in an absolute way by forcing Python to detect > DocumentRoot by itself? In the general case it is not possible. There is no single convention you can use to detect the top of a web site. If you always use apache httpd then read the value of DocumentRoot from httpd.conf Barry -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list