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
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