Library and real path name

[Robert Kern]

Michele Petrazzo wrote:
> I want to redistribute the library that I create.
> I create a project, its setup.py that when launched copy all files into
> the "site-packages/library" directory. And here it's all ok.
> When I call my library with:
> 
> import library
> library.class()
> 
> I want that my library know where are its real path
> (site-packages/library/), because it has to load a data file present
> into a subpackage directory (like site-package/library/data/file.dat),

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