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Alex_Joo
Alex_Joo

Reputation: 111

Python: Get current working directory from terminal

Hello I'm writing a small script which will make a webbsite template for me. I'm going to make an alias which would run the script and thats why I have a problem. When running the script, I don't want to write a directory to where I want to create my folder. I want it to create in my terminals working directory. How do I "os.chdir()" to my terminals working directory. I have tried:

import os
dir_path = os.system("pwd | clip")
os.chdir(dir_path)

Output:
TypeError: chdir: path should be string, bytes or os.PathLike, not int

TL,DR I want to get the path from where in terminal the script executes and then os.chdir() to it

Upvotes: 4

Views: 8346

Answers (1)

Tin Nguyen
Tin Nguyen

Reputation: 5330

Get current working dir:

import os
cwd = os.getcwd()

Get the dir of the file you are executing from:

import os 
dir_path = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))

You can manipulate the string with e.g. dir_path = os.path.join(dir_path, '..', 'somefolder').
With the resulting string you can do os.chdir(dir_path)

Upvotes: 8

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