[Tutor] Working Directory

[Alexandre Ratti]

Hi Russell,


At 12:00 03/05/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 10:58:00 +0100
>From: Russell Bungay <rab121@york.ac.uk>
>Subject: [Tutor] Working Directory

>I am currently working on a little app and am having difficulties with
>finding out about what directory I am working in.  I need this
>information for two reasons, 1.  for the creation and use of a
>ConfigParser object and related file. 2.  To import a module held in the
>same directory as the module that I am currently working on.

Here is how I did it in my pet project. Note this project is a package 
(i.e. the base dir contains an empty "__init__.py" file):

import os
import yourPackageName

def getAppBaseDir():
     "Returns the directory path for the application."
     basePath = os.path.dirname(yourPackageName.__file__)
     return basePath

This function is stored in a library file that is located in the root 
directory of my app. It return the base directory for the app.


Cheers.

Alexandre