Using Python's os.path, how do I go up one directory?

Question

I recently upgrade Django from v1.3.1 to v1.4.

In my old settings.py I have

TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
    os.path.join(os.path.dirname( __file_         


        

Answer 1

I think the easiest thing to do is just to reuse dirname() So you can call

os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname( __file__ ))

if you file is at /Users/hobbes3/Sites/mysite/templates/method.py

This will return "/Users/hobbes3/Sites/mysite"