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19 questions linked to/from python: Change the scripts working directory to the script's own directory
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I have scripts calling other script files but I need to get the filepath of the file that is currently running within the process. For example, let's say I have three files. Using execfile: script_1....
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cd is the shell command to change the working directory. What is the equivalent in Python?
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I have a script that runs multiple instances of Python Scrapy crawlers, Crawlers are int /root/crawler/batchscript.py and in /root/crawler/ I have that scrapy crawler. Crawlers are working perfectly ...
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I am running python 3.7 in Wing IDE as an administrator. The python file is in the same folder (Documents) as the textdoc file. This is the python code I have: file = open("textdoc.txt", "r") ...
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I have a python script saved in a directory. When I run it from its folder it works as expected. However, when I run it through an interface (Unraid's User Script plug-in's "Run Script" ...
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I would like to see what is the best way to determine the current script directory in Python. I discovered that, due to the many ways of calling Python code, it is hard to find a good solution. Here ...
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Coming from R, using setwd to change the directory is a big no-no against reproducibility because others do not have the same directory structure as mine. Hence, it's recommended to use relative path ...
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I have a python script that parses all of the C++ source files in the project's directory, looks for some stuff in the files, and then generates a file. This python script works fine, but I want it ...
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I would like to download 100+ email from gmail as pdf. It would be too long to manually download all of them via the print option in gmail. This python script retrieves the emails in the chosen label....
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In batch there is a command %~dp0 which mean change the directory to the script directory, for example: Batch file is in desktop, if you use %~dp0 the directory instantly go to the C:\Users\Windows\...
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I want to execute python script by supervisor. I set up the directory option in supervisord.conf and I used relative path in command option like this. [supervisord] http_port=/var/tmp/supervisor....
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I have finished a program in Python and I intend for it to be run from my RPi every n hours. This will be my first time running such program/script in this way and I would like to know if there is ...
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I am creating a Python package with multiple modules. I want to make sure that when I import modules within the package that they are importing only from the package and not something outside the ...
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I’m a new python user and have written a python script that prompts for the name of a text file (.txt) to be opened and read by the program. name = raw_input("Enter file:") if len(name) < 1: ...
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I would like to change the folder where a file is created in my Python Script. Just now I have the next line: file = open("scraping.txt", "w") but the problem is that scraping.txt is saved in the ...
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