[Zope] Python calling files from ancestor directories?

Casey Duncan casey@zope.com
12 Jun 2002 13:10:09 -0400


BTW: Does anyone else find a folder full of Python scripts named cgi at
all troubling?

Anyhow, there is a method you can acquire to get the root. Here is a
sample:

root = container.getPhysicalRoot()
some_file = root.nah.someFile
...

hth,

Casey

On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 10:33, Alec Munro wrote:
> Hi there,
> Any idea how I can use Python to call a file two directories up?
> So if my python script is at:
> /root/blah/cgi/someScript
> 
> And I want it to return the file:
> /root/nah/someFile
> 
> I haven't figured out how to do this yet, any ideas?
> 
> Alec Munro
> 
> 
> 
> 
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