program path

[Steven Taschuk]

Quoth Peter Hansen:
  [...]
> See Mike's reply... it works fine.

Good to know.

> So basically os.path.abspath(sys.argv[0]) should be the idiomatic
> way to find the full path where the __main__ script lives.

I notice the alternative
    sys.modules['__main__'].__file__
which I like because it generalizes easily to arbitrary modules,
as the sys.argv[0] approach does not.  Does this alternative have
any disadvantages I'm not seeing?

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Steven Taschuk                             staschuk at telusplanet.net
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