location of a module's directory

[Joonas Paalasmaa]

Dave Berkeley wrote:
> Is there a way to discover where a module was loaded from?
> 
> I want to include a text configuration file with a .dll, and place them in
> the same directory. If the module knows where it was loaded from it will be
> able to find the config file.
> 
> If you do (Python 2.1.1)
> 
> 
>>import sys
>>print sys.modules
> 
> 
> you can get a dictionary of loaded modules, and a description, which
> includes the path the module was loaded from. However, I can find no way of
> accessing this information programmatically.

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Python 2.2a3 (#23, Sep  7 2001, 01:43:22) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
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 >>> import cgi
 >>> cgi.__file__
'C:\\Python22\\lib\\cgi.py'