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Can someone please explain to me the Repository Pattern in .NET, step by step giving a very simple example or demo. I know this is a very common question but so far I haven't found a satisfactory answer. As a summary, I would describe the wider impact of the repository pattern. It allows all of your code to use objects without having to know how the objects are persisted. All of the knowledge of persistence, including mapping from tables to objects, is safely contained in the repository. Very often, you will find SQL queries scattered in the codebase and when you come to add a column to a

We are working with a code repository which is deployed both to Windows and Linux - sometimes on different directories. How should one of the modules inside the project refer to one of the non-Python resources in the project (CSV files, etc.)? If we do something like: thefile=open('test.csv') or: thefile=open('../somedirectory/test.csv') It will work only when the script is run from one specific directory, or a subset of the directories. What I would like to do is something like: path=getBasePathOfProject()+'/somedirectory/test.csv' thefile=open(path) Is this the right way? Is it possible?