On Executing os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)) in python interactive shell, you will get the error NameError: name ‘__file__’ is not defined.
This is because the python Shell wont detect the current file path __file__ . If you execute this in a file , means, if the command is written in a myprogram.py and then execute as python myprogram.py you wont see this error.
If you wish to run the code in the Python shell without encountering errors, the following approach will work effectively.
os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(<span class="hljs-string">"__file__"</span>))Reference
