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Empty sys.path[0]

Peter Hansen peter at engcorp.com
Sat Jul 7 11:59:54 EDT 2001 
Michal Wallace wrote:
> 
> On 7 Jul 2001, Gustaf Liljegren wrote:
> 
> > The problem is that I can't find a way to get this directory. The
> > docs say that sys.path[0] should be used for this, but that does
> > only return an empty string.
> 
> Where do the docs say this? It sounds like a mistake, or something
> that needs clarification..
> 
> you want os.getcwd()

It's more likely he wants something with sys.argv[0].  He 
wanted the directory of the Python script, which might not be the 
same as os.getcwd().

import sys, os
x = os.path.abspath(sys.argv[0])

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peter at engcorp.com
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