Accessing files installed with distutils

[Leif K-Brooks]

Frans Englich wrote:
> This is silly. How do I access data files I've installed with distutils? In a 
> portable, generic way, I want to find out what is the following path on most 
> systems:
> 
> /usr/local/lib/python2.4/lib/site-packages/foo/bar.txt

Assuming your module is also in site-packages/foo, I would use:

import os
filename = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'bar.txt')