I have a project on Gitlab that should download files to its current directory (regardless of user OS being Mac/Windows) when the user downloads the repo and uses it on locals. Also, I will read the same file again further in the program.

Can anyone suggest to me what directory name should I pass in the python variable to achieve this?

Thank you

CodePudding user response：

If you want to download to the same folder as your python file, you can do

from pathlib import Path

dir_to_download_to = Path(__file__).parent

If you want to download to the same folder as the user is in, then

import os

dir_to_download_to = os.getcwd()