Get Path of current Script

2011-03-14 Thread Alexander Schatten
Hi, could someone help me with a small problem? I wrote a Python script that does some RegEx... transformations. Now, this script loads some configuration data from a file located in the same directory: open ('config.txt', 'r'). However, this only works when I execute the script being in the dir

Re: Get Path of current Script

2011-03-14 Thread Alexander Schatten
Thanks for the comments so far. This sounds to be more complicated in detail than I expected. I wonder how all the other Python programs and scripts are doing that... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Get Path of current Script

2011-03-14 Thread Alexander Schatten
They don't. Hm, ok, I am always for best practices. If there is a better way to do it I am open for suggestions ;-) How would the best practice be to load configuration data from a file. I mean, this is something very common: you write a program or a script and want to load some configuration data