Finding the Process Path

[Steve Holden]

Peck, Jon wrote:
> Thanks, but this doesn't tell me what I am looking for.
> 
> I am looking for the path for the current process (which will not be the Python interpreter).
> 
Actually the core image will be that of the Python interpreter.

> I see, though, that this is available as sys.executable
> 
The interpreter? That's correct.

What you probably want is

import os, sys
print os.path.abspath(sys.argv[0])

this will give you the path to the Python script the interpreter is running.

regards
  Steve
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