path to data files

[Daniel Kluev]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Daniel Fetchinson <
fetchinson at googlemail.com> wrote:

> If a python module requires a data file to run how would I reference
> this data file in the source in a way that does not depend on whether
> the module is installed system-wide, installed in $HOME/.local or is
> just placed in a directory from where the interpreter is fired up? I'd
> like to always keep the python source and the data file in the same
> directory, be it /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages,
> $HOME/.local/lib/python2.6/site-packages or
> /arbitrary/path/to/somewhere.
>

open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'foo'))

-- 
With best regards,
Daniel Kluev
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