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I'm having a problem with a program in which I have to load images and pickled objects: my Python software doesn't appear to be looking in the location of the program. I have my program in a folder called "King's Capture," and my images in a folder within "King's Capture" labeled "data." I want to have python find the files no matter where I place the folder "King's Capture." It seems to me that python should already be looking in the folder where the program itself is, but it apparently isn't. How should I go about this?

user1048917
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You can access the path of the current script file via the special variable __file__. So try this within your main program script: 

import os
// ...
data_dir = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'data')
gsteff
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Try this

import sys, os

ROOT = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
directory = ROOT + os.path.sep + 'data'
for eachFile in os.listdir(directory):
    fileName = directory + os.path.sep + eachFile
    print fileName
Aamir Rind
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  • Great solution! :) I picked Gsteff's because it was simpler for what I wanted to do, but I must say that your response was quick and effective. :D – user1048917 Feb 19 '12 at 22:42
  • Just one thing: you should use `os.path.join()` instead of appending the separator manually. – danielkza Feb 20 '12 at 08:16