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

Keep in mind that appname.__path__ is a list:

import appname
APP_ROOT = os.path.abspath(appname.__path__[0])
file_path = os.path.join(APP_ROOT, "some_file.txt")