get a file or program’s full path in python

April 9th, 2008 by Lawrence David

when you execute a program in python, the program’s name can be found with the following command:

import sys

print sys.argv[0]

to get the full path to the program, use the abspath command:

import os

os.path.abspath(sys.argv[0])

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