filesystems - finding out absolute path to a file from python

Question

If I have a file test.py that resides in some directory, how can I find out from test.py what directory it is in? os.path.curdir will give the current directory but not the directory where the file lives. If I invoke test.py from some directory foo, os.curdir will return foo but not the path of test.py.

thanks.

Answer 1

Here's how to get the directory of the current file:

import os
os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))