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getting the absolute path of a file object

Answer 1

+1 A:

os.path.abspath should do what you want, if I understand your question correctly.

inkedmn 2009-12-10 14:08:47

This works nicely if I pass a string, but I don't know how to get the path as string from my file object :)

ulvund 2009-12-10 14:16:50

@ulvund, Try this: file.name works for file objects

Nadia Alramli 2009-12-10 14:21:51

Ahh thanks a billion millions Nadia .. that did the trick.

ulvund 2009-12-10 14:27:05

**Nadia Alramli** `file.name` is only going to return the path that was originally passed in. If you use `open("test/sample.txt")` and then `os.chdir("/some/other/path")` then `f.name` is still going to return `"test/sample.txt"`

Steve Losh 2009-12-10 14:27:12

@Steve, and what is wrong with that? I didn't say file.name will return the full path. I was just answering the OP comment about getting the path as a string from the file object.

Nadia Alramli 2009-12-10 15:01:14

Answer 2

+2 A:

file = tkFileDialog.askopenfile(parent=root,mode='rb',filetypes=[('Subrip Subtitle File','*.srt')],title='Choose a subtitle file')
abs_path = os.path.abspath(file.name)

Dan Lorenc 2009-12-10 14:25:18

This will work as long as there's no `os.chdir()` call between those two lines. So in the case of this question it's probably fine, but it's not perfect. I can't think of a way to do it that will always work off the top of my head.

Steve Losh 2009-12-10 14:29:07

I don't know of any good reason to use os.chdir() in a GUI app -- at least, not one that also uses threads, and that's the only way you could get a call to chdir() "between" two lines of source that you control.

Peter Hansen 2009-12-10 16:34:48

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