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To retrieve a file in Python, you need to know the exact path to reach the file, in Windows, you can view a particular file's path by right-clicking the File-> Properties-> General-> Location. Similarly, to run a script, the working directory needs to be set to the directory containing the script.
Run it with the python (or python3 ) command. You can get the absolute path of the current working directory with os. getcwd() and the path specified with the python3 command with __file__ . In Python 3.8 and earlier, the path specified by the python (or python3 ) command is stored in __file__ .
The key here is the name attribute of the f object representing the opened file. You get it like that:
>>> f = open('/Users/Desktop/febROSTER2012.xls')
>>> f.name
'/Users/Desktop/febROSTER2012.xls'
Does it help?
I had the exact same issue. If you are using a relative path os.path.dirname(path) will only return the relative path. os.path.realpath does the trick:
>>> import os
>>> f = open('file.txt')
>>> os.path.realpath(f.name)
And if you just want to get the directory name and no need for the filename coming with it, then you can do that in the following conventional way using os Python module.
>>> import os
>>> f = open('/Users/Desktop/febROSTER2012.xls')
>>> os.path.dirname(f.name)
>>> '/Users/Desktop/'
This way you can get hold of the directory structure.
You can get it like this also.
filepath = os.path.abspath(f.name)
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