Forcing Python to detect DocumentRoot
Joel Goldstick
joel.goldstick at gmail.com
Thu Jan 17 10:14:19 EST 2013
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 9:09 AM, Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> wrote:
> In article <339d9d6d-b000-4cf3-8534-375e0c44b2ca at googlegroups.com>,
> Ferrous Cranus <nikos.gr33k at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > When trying to open an html template within Python script i use a
> relative
> > path to say go one folder back and open index.html
> >
> > f = open( '../' + page )
> >
> > How to say the same thing in an absolute way by forcing Python to detect
> > DocumentRoot by itself?
>
> Can you give us more details of what you're doing. Is there some web
> framework you're using? Can you post some code that's not working for
> you?
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Import os
Then read os.environ['HOME']
This will give you the home directory of the user. in my case:
>>> os.environ['HOME']
'/home/jcg'
>>>
This is probably linux only, but that seems to be the environment you are
working in .
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Joel Goldstick
http://joelgoldstick.com
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