Question

Consider the following Python code:

import os
print os.getcwd()

I use os.getcwd() to get the script file’s directory location. When I run the script from the command line it gives me the correct path whereas when I run it from a script run by code in a Django view it prints /.

How can I get the path to the script from within a script run by a Django view?

UPDATE:
Summing up the answers thus far – os.getcwd() and os.path.abspath() both give the current working directory which may or may not be the directory where the script resides. In my web host setup __file__ gives only the filename without the path.

Isn’t there any way in Python to (always) be able to receive the path in which the script resides?

Answer 1

You need to call os.path.realpath on __file__, so that when __file__ is a filename without the path you still get the dir path:

import os
print(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)))