[Tutor] Detect the folder of a file

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 09:57:19AM +0100, Oscar Benjamin wrote:

> You can write some code to test if a particular path represents the
> base directory of a virtual environment but I expect it would probably
> be fragile. Without knowing why you want to do this I suggest that you
> might want to find a different general approach to your real problem.

You know, some day I must learn why people use virtual environments. Its 
a total mystery to me. It makes a sort-of sense to me if you're talking 
about old versions of Python before per-user site-packages were added, 
but that's been available since version 2.6. So I don't get it.



-- 
Steve