newbie question: how to get directory of script?

[Robin Munn]

Tom McDermott <spon at cisco.com> wrote:
> djw wrote:
>> 
>> os.getcwd()
>> 
> No such luck. This (at least on linux) returns the directory from which
> the script is invoked, rather than the directory of the script.
> 
> I use sys.path[0], but that doesn't seem to be the official method.

I don't know why Windows is putting the name of the script in
sys.argv[1] instead of sys.argv[0] -- that bothers me. But if you know
the name of the script, then you can do:

script_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(script_name))

Or:

script_dir, script_basename = os.path.split(os.path.abspath(script_name))

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