Move _get_python_path in utils to be accessible by that file as well

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/pylint/utils/utils.py b/pylint/utils/utils.py
index d5fe8f6ea..dec15f29a 100644
--- a/pylint/utils/utils.py
+++ b/pylint/utils/utils.py
@@ -115,6 +115,20 @@ def _modpath_from_file(filename, is_namespace):
     )
 
 
+def get_python_path(filepath):
+    dirname = os.path.realpath(os.path.expanduser(filepath))
+    if not os.path.isdir(dirname):
+        dirname = os.path.dirname(dirname)
+    while True:
+        if not os.path.exists(os.path.join(dirname, "__init__.py")):
+            return dirname
+        old_dirname = dirname
+        dirname = os.path.dirname(dirname)
+        if old_dirname == dirname:
+            return os.getcwd()
+    return None
+
+
 def expand_modules(files_or_modules, black_list, black_list_re):
     """take a list of files/modules/packages and return the list of tuple
     (file, module name) which have to be actually checked