Python modules (including Django apps) have a __file__
attribute that tells you the location of their __init__.py
file on the filesystem, so
import appname
pth = os.path.dirname(appname.__file__)
should do what you want.
In usual circumstances, os.path.absname(appname.__path__[0])
, but it’s possible for apps to change that if they want to import files in a weird way.
(I do always do PROJECT_ROOT = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
in my settings.py
, though — makes it easy for the various settings that need to be absolute paths.)