When is a module imported from the standard library?

[cary miller]

> print os.path.dirname(os.__file__)

is simplest if you only want to know about the os module.  To get the
location of any module do this:

mod = os
os.path.dirname(eval(mod.__name__).__file__)



On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, cary miller wrote:
>
> > How about this?
> >
> > import os
> > mod = eval('os')
> > mod.__file__
>
> That works, although we don't need the eval() in there, I think.
>
> ---
> #! /usr/bin/python
>
> import os
>
> print os.path.dirname(os.__file__)
> ---
>
> There we go. I think that's the simplest possible implementation. Does
> everyone agree?
>
>

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