Frequently Asked Questions¶
Why is __file__ not defined? What can I use?¶
The global __file__ variable defined by Python when running scripts is not defined on Jupyter notebooks. Since Sphinx-Gallery supports notebook styled examples and also exports to Jupyter notebooks we agreed on keeping this variable out of scope when executing the example scripts.
Instead of __file__ use os.getcwd()
to get the directory where
the file is located. Sphinx-Gallery executes the examples scripts in
their source directory.
See also