Find the location of a loaded module

[Christian Heimes]

Aaron Scott schrieb:
> I'm running into a problem that's rapidly reaching keyboard-smashing
> levels. I'm trying to import a module into Python, but it seems like
> Python is almost randomly loading the module from an entirely
> different directory, one that shouldn't be in the module search path.
> 
> When I tell Python to load a module, is there a way to tell which
> directory the module was loaded from?

All except builtin modules have an attribute __file__ that points to the
file.

Christian