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Quy Vu Xuan
Quy Vu Xuan

Reputation: 189

Spyder/Python - Automatically set working directory to current script's

I know that the directory can be automatically changed to that of the current script if we press F5.

But is there a way to automatically do so when I run the codes in interactive mode, or when I open a script? Currently I need to os.chdir() to the current working directory.

Thanks.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1145

Answers (1)

keineahnung2345
keineahnung2345

Reputation: 2701

You can add the following lines to your script:

import os
os.chdir(os.path.dirname(__file__))

__file__ will return the path of the script, and we can use os.path.dirname to find which directory it is located in. Then just use os.chdir to change to that directory.

Upvotes: 1

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