[Clam-devel] how to import a python module from a relative path

David García Garzón dgarcia at iua.upf.edu
Thu Dec 28 17:03:16 PST 2006


Use:
 os.path.split(sys.argv[0])[0]
which gives the path of the current script, then you can get the relative path 
to this one.

On Thursday 28 December 2006 21:26, Pau Arumi wrote:
> I've add a new module dependency (versionInfo) in
> CLAM/scripts/doDebianPackages.py and doSrcTarballs.py :
>
> #!/usr/bin/python
> import sys
> sys.path.append("../scons/sconstools/")
> from versionInfo import packageVersionFromSvn
> ...
>
> as you see, versionInfo.py is not in the python path, but in a known
> (relative) path.
> it works if I execute from the same dir:
> $ ./doDebianPackages.py
>
> but do not work from other dirs,
> $ ../doDebianPackages.py
>
> this is because relative paths takes the working dir as reference and
> not the file dir.
>
> how can you refer in pyhton the file dir?
> thanx

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