Getting module location

Thomas Dybdahl Ahle thomas at localhost.localdomain
Thu Jan 5 08:04:49 EST 2006


Den Thu, 05 Jan 2006 14:53:40 +0800. skrev limodou:

> 2006/1/5, Thomas Dybdahl Ahle <thomas at localhost.localdomain>:
>> Is it possible for an imported module to find its own location?
> 
> you can access __file__(missing for built-in modules) or __path__(used
> for a package) attribute to find a module's location.

Super, what I needed seems to be os.chdir(os.path.dirname(__file__)).
Works flawlessly. Thank you.

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