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[Gabriel Genellina]

At Tuesday 21/11/2006 03:07, rplobue at yahoo.com wrote:

>alright, noob question: i want to open a file in a directory above the
>current one i'm in.  I'm trying to use myfile =
>open('../thefileiwant.txt', 'r')  but the ../ doesn't work.  How do i
>do it?

Above the process' current dir, or above the dir where the script resides?
You get the latter with os.path.abspath(__file__)


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Gabriel Genellina
Softlab SRL 

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