Expected to find project root in current working directory.

To find the project root in the current working directory, you can use the following code snippet in Python:

    
import os

def find_project_root():
    current_directory = os.getcwd()
    while True:
        if any(file.endswith('.py') for file in os.listdir(current_directory)):
            return current_directory
        parent_directory = os.path.dirname(current_directory)
        if parent_directory == current_directory:
            raise Exception("Project root not found.")
        current_directory = parent_directory

project_root = find_project_root()
print("Project root:", project_root)
    
  

This code searches for any Python file (.py extension) in the current directory and its parent directories recursively until it finds a Python file. Once a Python file is found, it is assumed that the directory containing that file is the project root.

Here’s an example directory structure:

    
    /home/user/projects/
    ├── project
    │   ├── src
    │   │   └── script.py
    └── README.md
    
  

In the above example, the project root is the “project” directory. The code snippet will identify the project root as “/home/user/projects/project” because it contains the script.py file.

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