Reference where a python script is located if being run from another location

Question

I'm trying to run a python script from a different location than where it is located but I need to reference files where the python script is located. I tried the following:

os.chdir(os.getcwd())

But unfortunately that gets the current working dir of where I ran the script from, not where the script currently lives.

Thanks

Answer 1

You can use

os.path.dirname(__file__)

to get the directory your script is located in.