import os base = __file__.split(os.sep) os.path.relpath('path/to/your/file/, base)
I hope this helps. Greg tekion wrote: > Hello, > I have a script in /usr/local/app/mypython.py and a configuration file > relative to /usr/local/app/conf. When I call the script with an > absolute path of /usr/local/app/mypthon.py I recieved an error > similar to the below error: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "script/art/auditlog.py", line 28, in ? > database = Config.get("DB", "user") > File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ > python2.3/ConfigParser.py", line 505, in get > raise NoSectionError(section) > ConfigParser.NoSectionError: No section: 'DB' > > I know why, the configuration which I reference in the script is > relative to "/usr/local/app", when I call the script via an absolute > path, then the relative the configuration file is base on where ever I > call the script from. One way to fix this is to add a path manually > into the variable. But I would like to avoid this hard-coding > parameter into my script. Is there a way to determined the relative > location of the script programatically? FYI, in the end this scrip > would run from CRON. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list