Although this is not exactly what OP meant as this is not super simple, however, when running scripts from Notepad++ the os.getcwd() method doesn't work as expected. This is what I would do:
import os
# get real current directory (determined by the file location)
curDir, _ = os.path.split(os.path.abspath(__file__))
print(curDir) # print current directory
Define a function like this:
def dir_up(path,n): # here 'path' is your path, 'n' is number of dirs up you want to go
for _ in range(n):
path = dir_up(path.rpartition("\\")[0], 0) # second argument equal '0' ensures that
# the function iterates proper number of times
return(path)
The use of this function is fairly simple - all you need is your path and number of directories up.
print(dir_up(curDir,3)) # print 3 directories above the current one
The only minus is that it doesn't stop on drive letter, it just will show you empty string.