[Python-ideas] os.path.here()

[Oscar Benjamin]

On 19 February 2014 16:52, Giampaolo Rodola' <g.rodola at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The implementation is pretty straightforward:
>
> def here(concat=None):
>     """Return the absolute path of the parent directory where the
>     script is defined.
>     """
>     here = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
>     if concat is not None:
>         here = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(here, concat))
>     return here

So if I do from os.path import here and get the above function what
happens when I call it in another module?

> Thoughts?

This encourages writing code that makes assumptions that break when
run from a zip file. I think that encouraging pkgutil.get_data() for
loading resources that are stored adjacent to a module is better.


Oscar