How to get the full path and directory of a Python script itself?
In a Python script, how to get the full path and directory of the Python script itself?
To get the path of the current file (the script itself), you can use __file__. To resolve any symbolic links in the path, you can use os.path.realpath(). Putting them together, you can do
os.path.realpath(__file__)
to get the full path of the Python script itself.
One example:
$ echo 'import os; print os.path.realpath(__file__)' >/tmp/test.py
$ python /tmp/test.py
/tmp/test.py