Many programs have a need to figure out the current working directory (CWD) at runtime. The Python os package has a getcwd() function that returns a program’s CWD. This is an example taken from Programming Python: Powerful Object-Oriented Programming

Code

import os, sys

# This prints the current working directory
print('my os.getcwd =>', os.getcwd())

# This prints the system path
print('my sys.path =>', sys.path[:6])

input('Press any key to exit')

Explanation

There isn’t much going on in this program. The first line imports the os and sys modules. The next line calls the print statement and passes the value returned from os.getcwd(). That will print the current working directy.

The next line prints the system paths, limited to 6 paths. Finally there is an input statement that causes the program to wait until the user presses a key to exit the program.

Output

Here is the output when ran on my system.

my os.getcwd => /Users/stonesoup/IdeaProjects/ProgrammingPython/PP4E/System
my sys.path => ['/Users/stonesoup/IdeaProjects/ProgrammingPython/PP4E/System', '/Users/stonesoup/Library/Application Support/IntelliJIdea2017.2/python/helpers/pydev', '/Users/stonesoup/IdeaProjects/ProgrammingPython', '/Users/stonesoup/IdeaProjects/ProgrammingPython/PP4E', '/Users/stonesoup/IdeaProjects/ProgrammingPython/PP4E/System', '/Users/stonesoup/Library/Application Support/IntelliJIdea2017.2/python/helpers/pydev']
Press any key to exit