[python] Get parent of current directory from Python script

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?

import os
current_file = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
parent_of_parent_dir = os.path.join(current_file, '../../')

This worked for me (I am on Ubuntu):

import os
os.path.dirname(os.getcwd())

'..' returns parent of current directory.

import os
os.chdir('..')

Now your current directory will be /home/kristina/desire-directory.

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())

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

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])

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)

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