Using os.path To get the parent directory of the directory containing the script (regardless of the current working directory), you’ll need to use __file__. Inside the script use os.path.abspath(__file__) to obtain the absolute path of the script, and call os.path.dirname twice: from os.path import dirname, abspath d = dirname(dirname(abspath(__file__))) # /home/kristina/desire-directory Basically, you can walk … Read more
If the only reason to modify the path is for developers working from their working tree, then you should use an installation tool to set up your environment for you. virtualenv is very popular, and if you are using setuptools, you can simply run setup.py develop to semi-install the working tree in your current Python … Read more
There are a few ways. One of the simplest is to create a my-paths.pth file (as described here). This is just a file with the extension .pth that you put into your system site-packages directory. On each line of the file you put one directory name, so you can put a line in there with … Read more