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

[Michael Hudson]

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

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