How to get absolute file path from an Windows Service in Python?

Question

I have an windows service made in Python. This is working fine. But I need get the file path where my service are installed. I have tried to use these codes bellow:

os.get getcwd()

Returns:

Windows System32 folder

os.path.realpath(__file__)

Returns:

NameError: global name 'file' is not defined

How can I get the file path to my windows service application?

To access the absolute path use os.path.abspath() http://stackoverflow.com/questions/51520/how-to-get-an-absolute-file-path-in-python — Oblio
– Oblio, Commented Nov 18, 2015 at 17:28
Possible duplicate of What directory does a Windows Service run in? — Torxed
– Torxed, Commented Nov 18, 2015 at 17:32

Martin Evans · Accepted Answer · 2015-11-18 17:35:34Z

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Use sys.prefix to obtain the folder used for the EXE. This holds the EXE's folder when a utility such as py2exe has been used to create it.

sys.path for example will hold the path to python24.zip

answered Nov 18, 2015 at 17:35

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