Frank Millman wrote: > I want to locate a file relative to the directory from which the main > program was launched. > > I have found two ways of finding the starting directory - > > 1. > import os > dir = os.getcwd()
This gives the current working directory... > 2. > import os.path > import __main__ > dir = os.path.dirname(__main__.__file__) ... and this gives the location of your main script. > I know that the first one will return the wrong result if os.chdir() has > been executed, but I don't do that. You'll get different results when you launch the script with an explicit path: $ cat millman/demo.py import os import __main__ print "cwd:", os.getcwd() print "script path:", os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__main__.__file__)) $ python millman/demo.py cwd: /home/frank script path: /home/frank/millman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
