Spyder/Python - Automatically set working directory to current script's

Question

I know that the directory can be automatically changed to that of the current script if we press F5.

But is there a way to automatically do so when I run the codes in interactive mode, or when I open a script? Currently I need to os.chdir() to the current working directory.

Thanks.

Answer 1

You can add the following lines to your script:

import os
os.chdir(os.path.dirname(__file__))

__file__ will return the path of the script, and we can use os.path.dirname to find which directory it is located in. Then just use os.chdir to change to that directory.