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Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 05:02:23 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: Re: Forcing Python to detect DocumentRoot
From: Ferrous Cranus <nikos.gr33k@gmail.com>
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> 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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> =C2=A0Ferrous Cranus <nikos...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > When trying to open an html template within Python script i use a relat=
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> > path to say go one folder back and open index.html
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> > f =3D open( '../' + page )
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> > How to say the same thing in an absolute way by forcing Python to detec=
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> > DocumentRoot by itself?
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> 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.=C2=A0 in my case:
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> >>> os.environ['HOME']
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> This is probably linux only, but that seems to be the environment you are=
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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...