[SciPy-user] paths relative to a python package
Tue Apr 1 18:40:23 CDT 2008
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Zane Selvans <firstname.lastname@example.org> wrote:
> I know this isn't scipy specific but...
> If you have a data file that's distributed with a python package, how do
> you refer to it relative to the location that the package ultimately
> gets installed? Is there a package_root variable or something?
> e.g. in my package directory let's say I have:
> and within datadir:
> How do I, within MyModule.py tell the program to open one of the data files?
dirname = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
datadir = os.path.join(dirname, 'datadir')
f = open(os.path.join(datadir, 'data1.dat'))
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