Get current symbolic directory with pathlib

Question

When executing a Python 3 script in a symbolic directory, I want to get the non-dereferenced path of the current directory. However, the default behavior of pathlib returns the derefenced path:

 $ mkdir test1
 $ ln -s test1 test2
 $ cd test2
 $ pwd
/home/myuser/test2
$ ipython3
Python 3.7.0 (default, Oct  9 2018, 10:31:47) 
Type 'copyright', 'credits' or 'license' for more information
IPython 7.1.1 -- An enhanced Interactive Python. Type '?' for help.

In [1]: from pathlib import Path                                                                                                                  

In [2]: str(Path.cwd())                                                                                                                                
/home/myuser/test1

The behavior I want is to get "/home/myuser/test2" as that's where the 'script' (interpreter in this case) was executed from, preferably using pathlib.

cody · Accepted Answer · 2018-12-11 20:26:02Z

1

Use os.getenv('PWD'):

Directories:

$ ls -l
total 1
drwxr-xr-x+ 1 cody agroup 0 Dec 11 15:23 dir1
lrwxrwxrwx  1 cody agroup 4 Dec 11 15:23 dir2 -> dir1

Result from dir2:

>>> str(Path.cwd())
'/home/cody/so/dir1'
>>> os.getenv('PWD')
'/home/cody/so/dir2'

answered Dec 11, 2018 at 20:26

cody

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