Linux application deployment

[Grant Edwards]

On 2004-09-05, Jarek Zgoda <jzgoda at gazeta.usun.pl> wrote:
> Robert M. Emmons <RobMEmmons at cs.com> pisze:
>
>> One thing I've always wonders was -- Is there a way for a python module 
>> to tell where it's file is located???  If you could do this it might 
>> also be possible to have a python script reset sys.path based on it's 
>> own location.
>
> import sys, os
>
> me = os.path.abspath(sys.argv[0])

That's only mostly reliable.  Nothing in Linux/Unix actually requires that
argv[0] be the program's path.  It is the convention to pass that as
argv[0], but there may be corner cases where it doesn't work.

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