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Pablo Marin-Garcia
Pablo Marin-Garcia

Reputation: 4251

how to get the file path for the ipython notebook in use? (the equivalent to __file__)

I want to change dir to the parent dir of my jupyter notebook.

I can not take the notebook path using os.path.basename(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))) as __file__ is not defined.

How can I get the dir of the ipynb file I am using in order to os.chdir() to it?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 5842

Answers (1)

Hugo
Hugo

Reputation: 146

You can't

https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/10123

The reason is because you're always running in the kernel, and in theory multiple notebooks could connect to that kernel.

However - by default if you're starting a notebook, the current working directory is set to the path of the notebook. So the closest, is to call os.getcwd()

I just created the most boring published notebook example to demonstrate this, you can see that, this notebook reflects it's path, and this one that's in a subdirectory also reflects the proper path

Upvotes: 5

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