[Pythonmac-SIG] Re: Newbie path problem -- revisited, again

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 19-mrt-04, at 8:33, Larry Bugbee wrote:

> Sorry....  I forgot a line.  Here is the revised snippet.
>
>
> import os, sys
>
> # include next 4 lines at the very top of all Python "main" programs
> if not os.path.dirname(__file__):     # perhaps sys.platform == 
> 'darwin'?
>     exec('import %s' % __file__[:-3]) # assumes a '.py' suffix
>     sys.exit()
> __name__ = '__main__'
>
> # test...
> if __name__ == '__main__':
>     print '\n   I am located at "%s" doing whatever.....\n' % __file__


What is this supposed to accomplish?

if __file__ is not an absolute path you can use 
os.path.abspath(__file__) to get the full path.

BTW. If I double-click a python script that contains "print __file__" 
(without the quotes) it prints the full path to the file

Ronald