I'm working on a web app called pj and there is a bin file and a src folder.

The relative paths before I deploy the app will look something like:

pj/bin and pj/src/pj/script.py.

However, after deployment, the relative paths will look like:

pj_dep/deployed/bin and pj_dep/deployed/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pj/script.py

Question:

Within script.py, I am trying to find the path of a file in the bin directory. This leads to 2 different behaviors in the dev and deployment environment.

If I do

os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'bin')

to try to get the path for the dev environment, I will have a different path for the deployment environment.

Is there a more generalized way I can find the bin directory so that I do not need to rely on an if statement to determine how many directories to go up based on the current env? This doesn't seem flexible and might cause other issues later on when the code is moved.