Question

I have been trying to figure out how to consistently get an absolute path to the directory of one of my modules so that I can open files in that same directory, regardless of whether the module is being run directly or being imported from somewhere else.

Am I just misunderstanding the way os.path and _ file _ work, or is there some quirk in Django that is causing this?

views.py:

def pathtest(request):
    return HttpResponse(mymodule.getpath())

mymodule.py:

def getpath():
    return os.path.realpath(__file__)

Expected Output:

/home/user/projects/myproject/mymodule/mymodule.py

Actual Output:

/home/user/projects/myproject/views.py

Answer 1

Can you do this?

mymodule.py:

def getpath():
    os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))