Django: Finding the current project’s path

Problem: You need the filesystem location of the current project, but your code doesn’t know which project is is used by (think 3rd party app).

Answer: Define “project location” as “location of settings file”, and you can do:

from django.conf import settings
os.path.dirname(os.path.normpath(os.sys.modules[settings.SETTINGS_MODULE].__file__))

3 thoughts on “Django: Finding the current project’s path”

Frank Malina says:

3. September 2008 at 8:00

Thank you, that’s just what I needed.

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Conan Albrecht says:

4. August 2011 at 4:24

Thanks! This saved me the headache of trying to put all those os.path… together.

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Cristopher Jefferson says:

24. September 2011 at 13:54

wonderful, it is what i have been looking for

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