Is it possible to get the name of an application ?

[Gary M. Josack]

Stef Mientki wrote:
> hello,
>
> for a general debug routine,
> written in some module.
> I want to write the information to a file,
> with name derived from the main python file.
>
> Is it possible to get the name of the python script started first ?
>
> thanks,
> Stef Mientki
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Is sys.argv[0] what you want? If so, then os.path.basename(sys.argv[0]) 
is probably what you want.

Thanks,
Gary M. Josack