A system independent way using python to get the root directory/drive on which python is installed
Try this:
import osdef root_path(): return os.path.abspath(os.sep)On Linux this returns /
On Windows this returns C:\\ or whatever the current drive is
You can get the path to the Python executable using sys.executable:
>>> import sys>>> import os>>> sys.executable'/usr/bin/python'Then, for Windows, the drive letter will be the first part of splitdrive:
>>> os.path.splitdrive(sys.executable)('', '/usr/bin/python')
Here's what you need:
import sys, osdef get_sys_exec_root_or_drive(): path = sys.executable while os.path.split(path)[1]: path = os.path.split(path)[0] return path