py-repo-root 1.1.1

Python utility for cleaner handling of paths

Introduction

This package standardizes the handling of paths in a Python project by allowing all paths to be relative to the project repo root. The package also helps discover the project root automatically based on the location of the file that invokes it and a user-specified (or commonly used) project root indicator files such as requirements.txt.

This package was heavily inspired by pyprojroot. Our version allows custom root file indicators, avoids recursive "/" is parent of "/" issue and can use the current file location to start walking the directory tree.

Usage

Installation:

pip install py-repo-root

Usage

Get project root

from pathlib import Path
from pyreporoot import project_root

project_root_dir = project_root(Path(__file__), root_files='requirements.txt')

Another common usage pattern may be to add the project_root to PYTHONPATH for the purposes of running some scripts.

import sys
from pathlib import Path
from pyreporoot import project_root

sys.path.insert(0, str(project_root(Path(__file__), root_files='requirements.txt')))

Getting a relative path from the project root for a file:

from pathlib import Path
from projectroot import project_root

path_to_file_from_project_root = project_root(Path(__file__), root_files='requirements.txt').joinpath('/path/to/file.txt')