[Scons-users] SCons, Python 3, and pathlib

[Bill Deegan]

dir('.').abspath ?

On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 8:39 AM, Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, 2017-07-25 at 07:45 -0700, Bill Deegan wrote:
> > SCons is py2 + py3, so we cannot use pathlib in the core.
>
> Agreed, I was thinking of in my SConstruct file as I know I will not be
> using the evil Python 2. ;-)
>
> > Which file are you trying to find the path of?
> > The SConstruct file?
> > Some other file?
>
> The SConstruct file.
>
> pathlib.Path() in a SConstruct delivers '.' but this resolves to the
> current directory of the execution of the PVM and not the actual
> location of the file. To achieve that in a Python script one usually
> uses __file__, however this special variable is not available in a
> SConstruct file during a run of SCons.
>
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