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[Steven Taschuk]

Quoth Peter Hansen:
> Steven Taschuk wrote:
  [...]
> >     sys.modules['__main__'].__file__
> > [...] Does this alternative have any disadvantages I'm not seeing?
> 
> Not available pre-2.3, as far as I know.  Fails under 2.2 anyway.

Ah.  Yes, that's quite a disadvantage.

(A little experimentation suggests it's just __main__ that has
this problem; modules imported under their normal names (assuming
they are importable thus) do have __file__, in 2.2.2.  Still,
that's not much help for the original problem.)

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