Archived:How to get installation drive/path

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28 Sep
2009

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Tested with

Devices(s): Nokia N95, Nokia E90

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Compatibility

Platform(s): S60 1st Edition, S60 2nd Edition, S60 3rd Edition

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Keywords: sys, os

Created: Rafael T. (10 Dec 2008)

Last edited: hamishwillee (28 Jun 2012)

Overview

Sometimes you need to know where your application is installed so you can create the files and save them into that specific folder. This can be easily done with PySymbian:

First way

# This works for script and SIS
import sys
 
try:
    raise Exception
 
except Exception:
 
    frame = sys.exc_info()[2].tb_frame
    path = frame.f_code.co_filename
    print path # prints whole path
    print path[:2] # prints the drive

Second way

# This one is better when using SIS packages
import os
 
print os.getcwd() # prints whole path
print os.getcwd().split("\\")[0] # prints the drive

Conclusion

With this examples you can get the path that your application is installed and do some cool things, like generating a file inside your code and saving to your application's folder. After that, it would be easy to read and edit those files.