Can't load relative config file using ConfigParser from sub-directory

Question

I have the following directory structure:

my_program/
       foo.py
       __init__.py # empty
       conf/
          config.cfg
          __init__.py 
         


        

Answer 1

you can use os package in python for importing an absolute or relative path to the configuration file. Here is a working example with the relative path (we suppose that config.ini in the folder name configuration that is in the subdirectory of your python script folder):

import configparser
import os

path_current_directory = os.path.dirname(__file__)
path_config_file = os.path.join(path_current_directory, 'configuration', config.ini)
config = configparser.ConfigParser()
config.read(path_config_file)