Get parent of current directory from Python script

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I want to get the parent of current directory from Python script  For example I launch the script from  home kristina desire-directory scripts the desire path in this case is  home kristina desire-directory  I know sys path 0  from sys  But I don t want to parse sys path 0  resulting string  Is there any another way to get parent of current directory in Python

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You can simply use   your script name py For example suppose the path to your python script is trading system trading strategies ts1 py  To refer to volume csv located in trading system data   You simply need to refer to it as    data volume csv

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import os def parent directory         Create a relative path to the parent       of the current working directory path   os getcwd   parent   os path dirname path  relative parent   os path join path  parent     Return the absolute path of the parent directory return relative parent  print parent directory

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This worked for me  I am on Ubuntu    import os os path dirname os getcwd

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returns parent of current directory   import os os chdir         Now your current directory will be  home kristina desire-directory

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Using os path To get the parent directory of the directory containing the script  regardless of the current working directory   you ll need to use   file    Inside the script use os path abspath   file    to obtain the absolute path of the script  and call os path dirname twice  from os path import dirname  abspath d   dirname dirname abspath   file         home kristina desire-directory  Basically  you can walk up the directory tree by calling os path dirname as many times as needed  Example  In  4   from os path import dirname  In  5   dirname   home kristina desire-directory scripts script py   Out 5     home kristina desire-directory scripts   In  6   dirname dirname   home kristina desire-directory scripts script py    Out 6     home kristina desire-directory   If you want to get the parent directory of the current working directory  use os getcwd  import os d   os path dirname os getcwd     Using pathlib You could also use the pathlib module  available in Python 3 4 or newer   Each pathlib Path instance have the parent attribute referring to the parent directory  as well as the parents attribute  which is a list of ancestors of the path  Path resolve may be used to obtain the absolute path  It also resolves all symlinks  but you may use Path absolute instead if that isn t a desired behaviour  Path   file    and Path   represent the script path and the current working directory respectively  therefore in order to get the parent directory of the script directory  regardless of the current working directory  you would use from pathlib import Path    path parents 1   is the same as  path parent parent  d   Path   file    resolve   parents 1    Path   home kristina desire-directory    and to get the parent directory of the current working directory from pathlib import Path d   Path   resolve   parent  Note that d is a Path instance  which isn t always handy  You can convert it to str easily when you need it  In  15   str d  Out 15     home kristina desire-directory

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import os current file   os path abspath os path dirname   file     parent of parent dir   os path join current file

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from os path import dirname from os path import abspath  def get file parent dir path           return the path of the parent directory of current file s directory         current dir path   dirname abspath   file         path sep   os path sep     components   current dir path split path sep      return path sep join components  -1

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import os import sys from os path import dirname  abspath  d   dirname dirname abspath   file      print d  path1   os path dirname os path realpath sys argv 0    print path1  path   os path split os path realpath   file     0  print path

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Use Path parent from the pathlib module   from pathlib import Path         Path   file    parent   You can use multiple calls to parent to go further in the path   Path   file    parent parent

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