CODEWITHSUNDEEP
pythonlinuxwindowspathoperating-system
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Not Amused

Reputation: 962

Create relative path and being OS independent

How can I get my script's file name as a relative path to cwd and it being OS independent?

e.g if I'm in linux it should return "./script.py" and if I'm in windows it should return ".\\script.py"

I tried with os.path.join and os.path.basename(__file__) but it returns absolute path.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 552

Answers (2)

Jordan Brière
Jordan Brière

Reputation: 1055

Why not simply let os handle that for you?

path = os.path.normcase(os.path.join('.', os.path.relpath(__file__)))

Upvotes: 0

n1tr0xs
n1tr0xs

Reputation: 407

import os
import platform

path = os.path.basename(__file__)
run_on=platform.system()
if run_on=='Windows': path=f'.\\{path}'
elif run_on=='Linux': path=f'./{path}'

print(f'path is {path}')

Upvotes: 2

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