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Author pitrou
Recipients blokeley, pitrou, r.david.murray, terry.reedy
Date 2011-03-04.22:04:11
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As for use cases, I have used it quite commonly in test scripts in order to find out the base directory of the source tree (and/or other resources such as data files).

e.g.:

basepath = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__)))
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2011-03-04 22:04:12pitrousetrecipients: + pitrou, terry.reedy, r.david.murray, blokeley
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