How to get full path to script?

[Mark Tolonen]

"kj" <socyl at 987jk.com.invalid> wrote in message 
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> How can a script know its absolute path?  (__file__ only gives the
> path it was used to invoke the script.)
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> Basically, I'm looking for the Python equivalent of Perl's FindBin.
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> The point of all this is to make the scripts location the reference
> point for the location of other files, as part of a self-contained
> distribution.
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> TIA!
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> Kynn
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> NOTE: In my address everything before the first period is backwards;
> and the last period, and everything after it, should be discarded.

import os
print os.path.abspath(__file__)

-Mark