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Using Unipath to Keep Things Portable. Django tip to avoid hard-coding full paths. I usually set a global called OUR_ROOT in settings.py using os.path.dirname(__file__) and use os.path.join with it to construct any other paths that I need.

Posted 21st December 2007 at 10:45 am

Tagged django, michaeltrier, python, settings, unipath

5 comments

I like that idea even better. Makes things a bit more flexible.

Empty - 22nd December 2007 03:20 - #
I'm using os.path.dirname(__file__) also, using Unipath is adding one more dependency to my projects.

Nuno Mariz - 22nd December 2007 15:53 - #
dirname doesn't necessarily give you an absolute path. It's almost always to your benefit to obtain a fully absolute path, which requires using either getcwd or realpath:

os.path.join(os.getcwd(), os.path.dirname(__file__))

os.path.realpath(os.path.dirname(__file__))

Robert Brewer - 24th December 2007 06:11 - #
@Robert: Is true, thanks for the correction.

Nuno Mariz - 26th December 2007 23:21 - #
Great, the right tip at the right time, I was just wondering how to do that best with several developer instances.

Christian Scholz - 4th January 2008 18:06 - #

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