NameError: name ‘__file__’ is not defined

I am trying to store the path of a script into a variable using:

os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))

However, it keeps returning a name '__file__' is not defined error.

here = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name '__file__' is not defined

Answer

Pretty sure you are running this in a terminal in the interactive Python as it is the only place (I’m aware of) to not have __file__. Also, if it was a script, and it would be the first line of it (according to the error message) it would fail on os is not defined (as you’d not import it).

Try it in the actual script. This should work.