Question

I have a directory structure like this:

--bin/
--lib/
--data/

So basically, the executable script is in bin and it calls the files in lib.. but lib has to communicate with the text files in data

Usually this use to work:
TO read a file in usually i use to do this

file_path =  os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__))+ "/../" +"data/"+filename
f = open(file_path,"r")

But, in this instance, if i do:

  print os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__))
  returns nothing?

What am i doing wrong..
Thanks

Answer 1

I guess with nothing you mean an empty string? This could only be the case, if __file__ was an empty string in the first place. Did you accidentally overwrite __file__?