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On 16 Jan 2013, at 13:51, Ferrous Cranus <nikos.gr33k@gmail.com> wrote:

> When trying to open an html template within Python script i use a relative=
 path to say go one folder back and open index.html
>=20
> f =3D open( '../' + page )
>=20
> How to say the same thing in an absolute way by forcing Python to detect D=
ocumentRoot by itself?

In the general case it is not possible. There is no single convention you ca=
n use to detect the top of a web site.

If you always use apache httpd then read the value of DocumentRoot from http=
d.conf

Barry