File opening

[Chris Liechti]

zayats at blue.seas.upenn.edu (Salim Zayat) wrote in 
news:a8frho$qqu$1 at netnews.upenn.edu:

> Hey all.  I was wondering about opening files.  Now I know you need to 
> include the path to the file in the open statement.  Now the problems 
> arises here, though.  I am writing a module that reads in a config file 
> and creates buttons from it.  So if my module is run directly, the only 
> thing you need is 
> 
>> open('./buttons.config', 'r')
> 
> But if you wanna import the module, then the path to the open statement 
> needs to be full path to the file.  Is there a fix to this?

google brought up this:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/52224 
scroll down to the comments box. others have had that problem too...



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Chris <cliechti at gmx.net>