Get absolute path of django app

Question

I am writing a unit test that needs to access an image file that I put in \"fixtures\" directory right under my django app directory. I want to open up this image file in my tes

Answer 1

În newer versions of Django (I don't know when it started, I assume it's there for many years now), the default settingy.py contains an entry

# Build paths inside the project like this: os.path.join(BASE_DIR, ...)
BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))

which you can use by importing the settings file like this

import os    
from my_project_name.settings import BASE_DIR

os.path.join(BASE_DIR, ...)