Relative Directories in snakefile using workflow.get_source()

Question

For my workflow, the scripts & snakefile are in a different directory than the output files. I specify the latter using the workdir directive, which seems to work fine.

Now in some cases there are static input files in other directories, whose paths I want to specify relative to the snakefile. According to the documentation, I should use workflow.get_source("path/relative/to/snakefile"). However this gives me

'Workflow' object has no attribute 'get_source'. Do I need some additional imports?

Answer 1

Looking at the documentation, it looks like what's used in the code example is workflow.source_path("path/relative/to/snakefile") rather than get_source - you can give that a try.
Otherwise, though I don't think it's officially documented, workflow.basedir gives you the path of the directory the Snakefile lives in, and you can build the rest of the path off that.