How to get path of a .py script

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Devrim Erdem wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On linux I have a script runSomething.py, the script is sometimes
> executed from a link on the desktop or from another dir.
> 
> How can I get the path of the script file itself so that I can locate
> files which are relative to the script file ?

How about: os.dirname(os.path.realpath(sys.argv[0]))+"/myfile"

Pádraig.