Find out the file name of a module from inside the module?

[Andreas Neudecker]

Hi Michael,

sorry for making your head spin ;-)
I think, Christian's answer is exactly what I was looking for: Just cut 
out the following code snippets and put them in files called program.py 
and module.py, respectively. Run program.py and you will see ... ;-)


Thanks to both of you, Michael, Christian.


Kind regards


Andreas


program.py:
8<------------------------------------------------------------------------

#!/usr/bin/env python

import sys
import os

# Check if running as program
if __name__ == '__main__':
	print "I was run as a PROGRAM and my path is \n\n\t'%s'\n" % 
os.path.abspath (sys.argv[0])
	print "Now, I will call the module 'module' ..."
	import module
	print "Let's see, what 'module' says about itself, calling 
'module.whoami()':\n\n"
	module.whoami()

else:
	print "Hey, I was not run as a program. What's on?"

# EOF 
-------------------------------------------------------------------------#


module.py
8<------------------------------------------------------------------------

# Module 'module.py' 
----------------------------------------------------------#

try:
     THIS_FILE = __file__
except NameError:
	 print "I guess I was not called as a module. That's strange."

def whoami ():
	print "I was called as a MODULE and my path is  \n\n\t'%s'\n" % THIS_FILE

# EOF 
-------------------------------------------------------------------------#



Michael Hudson schrieb:
> Andreas Neudecker <a.neudecker at uni-bonn.de> writes:
> 
> 
>>Hi.
>>
>>I know you can read the filename of a program as sys.argv[0]. But what
>>about modules? Is there a similar way to find out the file name of a
>>module (called by some other module or program) from inside this
>>module?
> 
> 
> Uh, your question makes my head spin a bit, but is __file__ what you
> want?
> 
> 
>>>>import os
>>>>os.__file__
> 
> '/usr/lib/python2.2/os.pyc'
> 
> Cheers,
> mwh
>