Add parent directory to path?

[Rick Muller]

I often use the little hack

import sys
sys.path.append('..')

to add the parent directory to the python path. It's nice, e.g., if I
want to keep a directory below the program directory that contains test
scripts, but still let them easily import the parent directory's modules.

This hack worked on Unix and Windows/Cygwin, which up until recently
were my only build targets. Now I just got a Apple OS X box, and I find
that, despite the BSD heritage, this little hack no longer works. Is
there a good platform-independent way of doing this? I figure that
something like this should live in os.path, but I didn't find anything
appropriate.

Thanks in advance for any help anyone can offer.

Rick

[Chris Liechti]

Rick Muller <r...@wag.caltech.edu> wrote in
news:3D21F62D...@wag.caltech.edu:

> I often use the little hack
>
> import sys
> sys.path.append('..')

i would use sys.path.append(os.path.abspath('..'))
as you might change the current dir of the app later.

> to add the parent directory to the python path. It's nice, e.g., if I
> want to keep a directory below the program directory that contains test
> scripts, but still let them easily import the parent directory's modules.
>
> This hack worked on Unix and Windows/Cygwin, which up until recently
> were my only build targets. Now I just got a Apple OS X box, and I find
> that, despite the BSD heritage, this little hack no longer works. Is
> there a good platform-independent way of doing this? I figure that
> something like this should live in os.path, but I didn't find anything
> appropriate.

doo you have printed os.curdir() and os.path.abspath(os.curdir)
do thay return somthing useful? don't have OSX, but i would expect it to
act like a unix too....

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[Richard P. Muller]

Chris,

os.path.abspath(os.curdir) works. Thanks.

Rick

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[William Park]

What does this have to do with the original post of this thread? Please
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