What is the Python equivalent of Perl's FindBin?

Question

In perl, the FindBin module is used to locate directory of original script. What's the best way to get this directory in python?

Answer 1

I don't use Python very often so I do not know if there is package like FindBin but

import os
import sys
bindir = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(sys.argv[0]))

should work.

Answer 2

You can try this:

import os
bindir = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))

That will give you the absolute path of the current file's directory.