🔒 Python relative path in Onedrive/Sharepoint

[chilly owl]

Is there a reason that relative paths don't seem to work in Sharepoint?
The whole project is inside the same folder parent, but it doesn't seem to find images and paths.

[visual minnow]

@chilly owl

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[grand harness]

it's probably a problem in your code

[chilly owl]

It works when the folder is on my desktop

[grand harness]

so you found a solution

[chilly owl]

No i did not. It does not work when on Onedrive. Thats my problem

[grand harness]

I see. I know it's not what you're asking for, but may I suggest not putting your code on onedrive?
if you want to share your code with other people there are better ways.

[chilly owl]

It's the company storage and backup, so "better" ways doesn't really help me

I'm just wondering if anyone has had similar issues. I'm assuming Microsoft maybe does some funky syncing tricks that i dont know of

[blissful hollow]

Not really

Are you sure the you copied that path too when you copied your code?

[chilly owl]

The paths are relative to the project files. No directory paths

[grand harness]

I don't think that's the case, still it's probably a problem with your code

try using __file__ for the working directory

[blissful hollow]

Right
Does that exist?

[chilly owl]

It does, because the program works when its located on my desktop, or anywhere else on my C drive

[chilly owl]

Like this?
os.listdir('__file__/firmware_library')

[grand harness]

no. give me a second

[wind vessel]

I'm pretty sure relative paths are relative to the cwd, not the location the script is in

[chilly owl]

Is there a macro that tells it relative to this file?

[grand harness]

it should be relative to the place of the script

[blissful hollow]

They are

[wind vessel]

__file__ is a variable that should be the abspath to the script
you can combine that with pathlib for something like

from pathlib import Path

script_dir = Path(__file__).parent

[grand harness]

import os
from pathlib import Path

directory = Path(__file__).absolute().parent
print(os.listdir(directory))

[chilly owl]

I will try 👍

[wind vessel]

or

from pathlib import Path

directory = Path(__file__).parent
print(list(directory.iterdir()))

[visual minnow]

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