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Get directory of current script

Anonymous — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 09:44:14 GMT

I'm trying to reference an image that's in the same directory as the script. There's no Maya file used or associated with the script

I've tried:

print os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(sys.argv[0]))
print os.path.split(maya.cmds.__file__)[0]
print sys.argv[0]
print os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(sys.argv[0]))

All of which point to: C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2017\bin

Whereas I hoped that it would pijnt to something like: D:\myprojects\Maya\something\scripts

Any ideas? Cheers

Re: Get directory of current script

rajasekaransurjen — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 13:29:35 GMT

Hi,

I think you want to print the current workspace's script path. The following script will print the current work space's script folder path if it is there.

import maya.cmds as cmds
import os.path

projectDirectory = cmds.workspace(q=True, rd=True)
if os.path.exists(projectDirectory+"scripts"):
print (projectDirectory+"scripts")
else:
print "Current Workspace doesnt have Scriprs folder"

hope this will help.

Best regards,
Rajasekaran Surjen.

Re: Get directory of current script

haggi_master — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 12:18:27 GMT

If you need the path of the script just use __file__.

e.g.:

os.path.dirname(__file__)

Re: Get directory of current script

Anonymous — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 12:01:02 GMT

That works fine from the command pront, but doesn't work from within Maya

import os
print os.path.dirname(__file__)
# Error: NameError: file <maya console> line 2: name '__file__' is not defined #

Re: Get directory of current script

haggi_master — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 12:09:22 GMT

No it does not. In your original question you asked for a way to find out the path of the current script because you want to find an image in the same directory as the script. And the method works fine if you have a script file. If you try this from within maya you do not have a script file and so it cannot work.

Re: Get directory of current script

Anonymous — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 16:19:06 GMT

Ok. Now I'm confused.

Say, for clarififcation that the script exists, and is dragged & dropped into the script editor it then doesn't seem to work.

Re: Get directory of current script

haggi_master — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 08:50:40 GMT

The usual way if you want to execute a script file from within Maya is to import the module. Let's imagine you have a script file called printScriptDir.py and it contains a function called doIt() (the script contains __file__ but for some reason it is not visible in the script below):

def doIt():
    print "CurrentDir: ", __file__

Now if you want to use it in Maya you usually do

import printScriptDir
printScriptDir.doIt()

This way you have a script file which is executed and the __file__ variable works fine. But if you copy the content of the script file into Maya's script editor, you do not have a file any more and therefore the __file__ variable cannot work.

Re: Get directory of current script

msilvaFT5HF — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 19:56:14 GMT

The way it worked for me is to get the path of the current plugin using cmds.pluginInfo.

current_path = cmds.pluginInfo("<my_plugin>", query=True, path=True) plugin_path = os.path.dirname(current_path)

Re: Get directory of current script

omidt_gh — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 18:11:39 GMT

i don't think this is going to work because if you can import printScriptDir what is the problem?
the problem is the current folder is not defined and we want to access exactly the current path. if we are able to import directly from the current path we do not have to add it to sys.path