How do I get the path of the current executed file in Python?

Question

This may seem like a newbie question, but it is not. Some common approaches don\'t work in all cases:

sys.argv[0]

This means using path = os.path.abs

Answer 1

You have simply called:

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

instead of:

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

abspath() gives you the absolute path of sys.argv[0] (the filename your code is in) and dirname() returns the directory path without the filename.