Add parent directory to path?

[Richard P. Muller]

Chris Liechti wrote:
> Rick Muller <rpm at wag.caltech.edu> wrote in 
> news:3D21F62D.9050801 at wag.caltech.edu:
> 
> 
>>I often use the little hack
>>
>>import sys
>>sys.path.append('..')
> 
> 
> i would use sys.path.append(os.path.abspath('..'))
> as you might change the current dir of the app later.
>  
> 
>>to add the parent directory to the python path. It's nice, e.g., if I 
>>want to keep a directory below the program directory that contains test 
>>scripts, but still let them easily import the parent directory's modules.
>>
>>This hack worked on Unix and Windows/Cygwin, which up until recently 
>>were my only build targets. Now I just got a Apple OS X box, and I find 
>>that, despite the BSD heritage, this little hack no longer works. Is 
>>there a good platform-independent way of doing this? I figure that 
>>something like this should live in os.path, but I didn't find anything 
>>appropriate.
> 
> 
> doo you have printed os.curdir() and os.path.abspath(os.curdir)
> do thay return somthing useful? don't have OSX, but i would expect it to 
> act like a unix too....
> 
> 

Chris,

os.path.abspath(os.curdir) works. Thanks.

Rick

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