Can I locate the source tree from from within the interpreter?

[Michael Hudson]

Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> writes:

> Is there a way to locate the source tree used to build an installed
> Python interpreter?

As Thomas says, gdb knows, so there must be some way of finding out
:-) Unless the executable's been stripped, of course.  In that case
I'm pretty sure you're out of luck.

Cheers,
M.

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