Re: Forcing Python to detect DocumentRoot

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Τη Πέμπτη, 17 Ιανουαρίου 2013 5:14:19 μ.μ. UTC+2, ο χρήστης Joel Goldstick έγραψε:
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 9:09 AM, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote:
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> In article <339d9d6d-b000-4cf3-8534-375e0c44b2ca@googlegroups.com>,
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>  Ferrous Cranus <nikos...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > When trying to open an html template within Python script i use a relative
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> > path to say go one folder back and open index.html
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> >
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> > f = open( '../' + page )
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> >
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> > How to say the same thing in an absolute way by forcing Python to detect
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> > DocumentRoot by itself?
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> Can you give us more details of what you're doing.  Is there some web
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> framework you're using?  Can you post some code that's not working for
> 
> you?
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> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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> 
> Import os
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> Then read os.environ['HOME']
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> This will give you the home directory of the user.  in my case:
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> 
> >>> os.environ['HOME']
> '/home/jcg'
> >>> 
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> 
> This is probably linux only, but that seems to be the environment you are working in .

Yes my Python scripts exist in a linux web host.

os.environ['HOME'] will indeed give the home directory of the user.

to me /home/nikos/

but i want a variable to point to

/home/nikos/public_html whice is called DocumentRoot.

is there avariable for that? i can't seem to find any...

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Forcing Python to detect DocumentRoot Ferrous Cranus <nikos.gr33k@gmail.com> - 2013-01-16 05:51 -0800
  Re: Forcing Python to detect DocumentRoot Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2013-01-16 09:01 -0500
    Re: Forcing Python to detect DocumentRoot Ferrous Cranus <nikos.gr33k@gmail.com> - 2013-01-16 06:32 -0800
      Re: Forcing Python to detect DocumentRoot Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2013-01-16 09:39 -0500
    Re: Forcing Python to detect DocumentRoot Ferrous Cranus <nikos.gr33k@gmail.com> - 2013-01-16 06:32 -0800
  Re: Forcing Python to detect DocumentRoot Ferrous Cranus <nikos.gr33k@gmail.com> - 2013-01-17 01:03 -0800
  Re: Forcing Python to detect DocumentRoot rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-01-17 05:51 -0800
  Re: Forcing Python to detect DocumentRoot Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-01-17 09:09 -0500
    Re: Forcing Python to detect DocumentRoot Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2013-01-17 10:14 -0500
      Re: Forcing Python to detect DocumentRoot Ferrous Cranus <nikos.gr33k@gmail.com> - 2013-01-18 05:02 -0800
        Re: Forcing Python to detect DocumentRoot Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2013-01-18 08:28 -0500
          Re: Forcing Python to detect DocumentRoot Ferrous Cranus <nikos.gr33k@gmail.com> - 2013-01-18 10:58 -0800
            Re: Forcing Python to detect DocumentRoot Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2013-01-18 14:11 -0500
            Re: Forcing Python to detect DocumentRoot Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-01-19 08:34 +1100
              Re: Forcing Python to detect DocumentRoot Ferrous Cranus <nikos.gr33k@gmail.com> - 2013-01-19 00:01 -0800
                Re: Forcing Python to detect DocumentRoot Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2013-01-21 11:49 -0700
              Re: Forcing Python to detect DocumentRoot Ferrous Cranus <nikos.gr33k@gmail.com> - 2013-01-19 00:01 -0800
                Re: Forcing Python to detect DocumentRoot Piet van Oostrum <piet@vanoostrum.org> - 2013-01-19 21:01 +0100
                Re: Forcing Python to detect DocumentRoot Ferrous Cranus <nikos.gr33k@gmail.com> - 2013-01-20 22:25 -0800
                Re: Forcing Python to detect DocumentRoot Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2013-01-21 07:33 -0500
                Re: Forcing Python to detect DocumentRoot Ferrous Cranus <nikos.gr33k@gmail.com> - 2013-01-21 06:55 -0800
                Re: Forcing Python to detect DocumentRoot Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2013-01-21 11:42 -0700
                Re: Forcing Python to detect DocumentRoot Ferrous Cranus <nikos.gr33k@gmail.com> - 2013-01-21 06:55 -0800
          Re: Forcing Python to detect DocumentRoot Ferrous Cranus <nikos.gr33k@gmail.com> - 2013-01-18 10:58 -0800
        Re: Forcing Python to detect DocumentRoot Rodrick Brown <rodrick.brown@gmail.com> - 2013-01-18 08:41 -0500
          Re: Forcing Python to detect DocumentRoot Ferrous Cranus <nikos.gr33k@gmail.com> - 2013-01-18 12:49 -0800
          Re: Forcing Python to detect DocumentRoot Ferrous Cranus <nikos.gr33k@gmail.com> - 2013-01-18 12:49 -0800
        Re: Forcing Python to detect DocumentRoot Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2013-01-21 08:46 -0700
          Re: Forcing Python to detect DocumentRoot Ferrous Cranus <nikos.gr33k@gmail.com> - 2013-01-21 08:02 -0800
            Re: Forcing Python to detect DocumentRoot Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2013-01-21 11:36 -0700
          Re: Forcing Python to detect DocumentRoot Ferrous Cranus <nikos.gr33k@gmail.com> - 2013-01-21 08:02 -0800
            Re: Forcing Python to detect DocumentRoot Piet van Oostrum <piet@vanoostrum.org> - 2013-01-21 20:05 +0100
      Re: Forcing Python to detect DocumentRoot Ferrous Cranus <nikos.gr33k@gmail.com> - 2013-01-18 05:02 -0800
  Re: Forcing Python to detect DocumentRoot Barry Scott <barry@barrys-emacs.org> - 2013-01-19 11:40 +0000
  Re: Forcing Python to detect DocumentRoot alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2013-01-19 17:53 -0800

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