__file__ vs __FILE__

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Sat, 03 Nov 2007 10:07:10 -0300, Giampaolo Rodola' <gnewsg at gmail.com>  
escribió:

> On 3 Nov, 04:21, klenwell <klenw... at gmail.com> wrote:

>> In PHP you have the __FILE__ constant which gives you the value of the
>> absolute path of the file you're in (as opposed to the main script
>> file.)

> This is not really 'one-line' since you have to import two modules
> first, but it looks nicer...:
>
> import sys, os
> print sys.argv[0] # absolute file name
> print os.path.dirname(sys.argv[0]) # absolute dir name

Note that this returns the location of the *main* script, not the current  
module, as the OP explicitely asked for.

-- 
Gabriel Genellina