I am using the Jinja extension from sphinxcontrib. For this I have added 
the following to conf.py: 

extensions = ['sphinxcontrib.jinja'] 

import json 
jinja_contexts = { 
    'messages': json.load(open("messages.json")) 
} 

The file "messages.json" is created automatically during the build of the 
project, before sphinx-build is called. The file is located in the build 
directory of the project. 

Now I'm struggling to refer to that file from conf.py, as the current 
directory is set to the directory where conf.py is located (which is the 
source directory of the project) when conf.py is loaded. 

My workaround currently is to copy conf.py to the build directory and 
execute 
sphinx-build like so, with the current directory set to the build directory: 


sphinx-build -b html -c . -d doctree '/.../source' html 

Is there a way to avoid copying conf.py to the build directory first? E.g. 
any variable which holds the value of the directory where sphinx-build is 
executed in, which can be accessed from conf.py? 

I also tried to add -D build_dir='/...' to sphinx-build in the hope that 
maybe this would make build_dir defined when conf.py is evaluated, but this 
is not the case. 

TIA, Markus 

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