In <9797b629-3fba-4b90-920f-e42668359...@a12g2000vbf.googlegroups.com> happykid
<psyking...@gmail.com> writes:
> I want to use this function to get the directory path of the running
> script, but it always returns empty string. Can anyone help me solve
> this? Thank you.
What is the value of sys.argv[0]? You're supposed to pass a full
pathname to os.path.dirname, like so:
>>> import os
>>> os.path.dirname('/a/b/c/d/e.txt')
'/a/b/c/d'
>>>
If sys.argv[0] is just the program name, then it doesn't have a path,
which is why you get no results from os.path.dirname:
>>> import os
>>> os.path.dirname('foo.py')
''
>>>
Are you trying to obtain the full pathname of the program? That's an
entirely different question.
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