How do you properly determine the current script directory in Python?

Question

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 ha

Answer 1

Here is a partial solution, still better than all published ones so far.

import sys, os, os.path, inspect

#os.chdir("..")

if '__file__' not in locals():
    __file__ = inspect.getframeinfo(inspect.currentframe())[0]

print os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))

Now this works will all calls but if someone use chdir() to change the current directory, this will also fail.

Notes:

• sys.argv[0] is not going to work, will return -c if you execute the script with python -c "execfile('path-tester.py')"
• I published a complete test at https://gist.github.com/1385555 and you are welcome to improve it.