Relative paths in Python

Question

I'm building a simple helper script for work that will copy a couple of template files in our codebase to the current directory. I don't, however, have the absolute path to the directory where the templates are stored. I do have a relative path from the script but when I call the script it treats that as a path relative to the current working directory. Is there a way to specify that this relative URL is from the location of the script instead?

Answer 1

To get the relative paths in Python you want to do something like as follows:-

import os 

dirname = os.path.dirname(__file__) 

filename = os.path.join(dirname, 'relative/path/to/file/you/want')