Correct idiom for determining path when frozen in 3.4

[Mark Summerfield]

On Monday, 17 March 2014 08:44:23 UTC, Mark Summerfield  wrote:
> Hi,
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> What is the correct idiom for getting the path to a top-level module in 3.3 and 3.4 when the module might be frozen?
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> At the moment I'm using this:
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>     if getattr(sys, "frozen", False):
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>         path = os.path.dirname(sys.executable)
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>     else:
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>         path = os.path.dirname(__file__)
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> Thanks!

My code was adapted from this:
http://cx-freeze.readthedocs.org/en/latest/faq.html#using-data-files

When you freeze a Python program with cx_Freeze, sys.freeze exists; but otherwise it doesn't.

I develop some programs which I freeze for distribution but during development I test them as-is so I need to be able to distinguish.

Also, from 3.4, __file__ won't exist in frozen modules:
http://docs.python.org/3.4/whatsnew/3.4.html#changes-in-the-python-api

Thanks for your thoughtful replies.