You need to call os.path.realpath on __file__, so that when __file__ is a filename without the path you still get the dir path:
import os
print(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)))
You need to call os.path.realpath on __file__, so that when __file__ is a filename without the path you still get the dir path:
import os
print(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)))