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damon
damon

Reputation: 8467

getting correct path of a folder in python

I have a directory structure as below

/home/damon/dev/python/misc/path/
                                /project/mycode.py
                                /app/templates/

I need to get the absolute path of the templates folder from mycode.py

I tried to write mycode.py as

import os

if __name__=='__main__':
    PRJ_FLDR=os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
    print 'PRJ_FLDR=',PRJ_FLDR
    apptemplates = os.path.join(PRJ_FLDR,'../app/templates')
    print 'apptemplates=',apptemplates

I expected the apptemplates to be

/home/damon/dev/python/misc/path/app/templates

but I am getting 

/home/damon/dev/python/misc/path/project/../app/templates

How do I get the correct path?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3583

Answers (4)

Rubens
Rubens

Reputation: 14768

Is this what you want?

import os

if __name__=='__main__':
    PRJ_FLDR=os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
    print 'PRJ_FLDR=',PRJ_FLDR
    apptemplates = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(PRJ_FLDR, '../app/templates'))
    print 'apptemplates=',apptemplates

Considering the comments, I made the proper edit.

Upvotes: 1

Colonel Panic
Colonel Panic

Reputation: 137534

That path is correct, try it. But if you want to remove the redundant 'project/../' section for clarity, use os.path.normpath

os.path.normpath(path)

Normalize a pathname. This collapses redundant separators and up-level references so that A//B, A/B/, A/./B and A/foo/../B all become A/B.

http://docs.python.org/2/library/os.path.html#os.path.normpath

Upvotes: 5

xmonk
xmonk

Reputation: 545

This works:

apptemplates = os.path.join(os.path.split(PRJ_FLDR)[0], "app/templates")

Upvotes: 0

damon
damon

Reputation: 8467

I tried this ,and it seems to work

parentpath=os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__),".."))
apptemplates=os.path.join(parentpath,'app/templates')

Upvotes: 0

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