Find current directory and file s directory

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In Python  what commands can I use to find    the current directory  where I was in the terminal when I ran the Python script   and where the file I am executing is

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If you re searching for the location of the currently executed script  you can use sys argv 0  to get the full path

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To get the full path to the directory a Python file is contained in  write this in that file   import os  dir path   os path dirname os path realpath   file        Note that the incantation above won t work if you ve already used os chdir   to change your current working directory  since the value of the   file   constant is relative to the current working directory and is not changed by an os chdir   call      To get the current working directory use   import os cwd   os getcwd       Documentation references for the modules  constants and functions used above    The os and os path modules  The   file   constant os path realpath path   returns  the canonical path of the specified filename  eliminating any symbolic links encountered in the path   os path dirname path   returns  the directory name of pathname path   os getcwd    returns  a string representing the current working directory   os chdir path    change the current working directory to path

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A bit late to the party  but I think the most succinct way to find just the name of your current execution context would be   current folder path  current folder name   os path split os getcwd

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Current Working Directory   os getcwd    And the   file   attribute  can help you find out where the file you are executing is located   This SO post explains everything   How do I get the path of the current executed file in Python

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If you re using Python 3 4  there is the brand new higher-level pathlib module which allows you to conveniently call pathlib Path cwd   to get a Path object representing your current working directory  along with many other new features   More info on this new API can be found here

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Pathlib can be used this way to get the directory containing current script    import pathlib filepath   pathlib Path   file    resolve   parent

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pathlib module  introduced in Python 3 4  PEP 428     The pathlib module     object-oriented filesystem paths   makes path-related experience much much better     pwd  home skovorodkin stack   tree    -- scripts      -- 1 py      -- 2 py   In order to get current working directory use Path cwd     from pathlib import Path  print Path cwd        home skovorodkin stack   To get an absolute path to your script file  use Path resolve   method   print Path   file    resolve        home skovorodkin stack scripts 1 py   And to get path of a directory where your script is located  access  parent  it is recommended to call  resolve   before  parent    print Path   file    resolve   parent      home skovorodkin stack scripts   Remember that   file   is not reliable in some situations  How do I get the path of the current executed file in Python      Please note  that Path cwd    Path resolve   and other Path methods return path objects  PosixPath in my case   not strings  In Python 3 4 and 3 5 that caused some pain  because open built-in function could only work with string or bytes objects  and did not support Path objects  so you had to convert Path objects to strings or use Path open   method  but the latter option required you to change old code     cat scripts 2 py from pathlib import Path  p   Path   file    resolve    with p open   as f  pass with open str p   as f  pass with open p  as f  pass  print  OK      python3 5 scripts 2 py Traceback  most recent call last     File  scripts 2 py   line 11  in  lt module gt      with open p  as f  TypeError  invalid file  PosixPath   home skovorodkin stack scripts 2 py     As you can see open p  does not work with Python 3 5   PEP 519     Adding a file system path protocol  implemented in Python 3 6  adds support of PathLike objects to open function  so now you can pass Path objects to open function directly     python3 6 scripts 2 py OK

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For question 1 use os getcwd     get working dir and os chdir r D  Steam steamapps common     set working dir    I recommend using sys argv 0  for question 2 because sys argv is immutable and therefore always returns the current file  module object path  and not affected by os chdir    Also you can do like this   import os this py file   os path realpath   file       vvv Below comes your code vvv     but that snippet and sys argv 0  will not work or will work wierd when compiled by PyInstaller because magic properties are not set in   main   level and sys argv 0  is the way your exe was called  means that it becomes affected by the working dir

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Answer to  1   If you want the current directory  do this   import os os getcwd     If you want just any folder name and you have the path to that folder  do this   def get folder name folder               Returns the folder name  given a full folder path             return folder split os sep  -1    Answer to  2   import os print os path abspath   file

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To get the current directory full path   os path realpath

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You may find this useful as a reference   import os  print  Path at terminal when executing this file   print os getcwd       n    print  This file path  relative to os getcwd     print   file       n    print  This file full path  following symlinks    full path   os path realpath   file    print full path     n    print  This file directory and name   path  filename   os path split full path  print path     -- gt      filename     n    print  This file directory only   print os path dirname full path

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1 To get the current directory full path       gt  gt import os      gt  gt print os getcwd     o p  C   Users admin myfolder   1 To get the current directory folder name alone       gt  gt import os      gt  gt str1 os getcwd        gt  gt str2 str1 split            gt  gt n len str2       gt  gt print str2 n-1    o p  myfolder

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If you are trying to find the current directory of the file you are currently in   OS agnostic way   dirname  filename   os path split os path abspath   file

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