How can module determine its own path?
Dave Angel
davea at ieee.org
Sat Oct 31 01:26:51 EDT 2009
Stef Mientki wrote:
> <div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed">Robert
> Kern wrote:
>> On 2009-10-30 12:19 PM, kj wrote:
>>> How can a module determine the path of the file that defines it?
>>> (Note that this is, in the general case, different from sys.argv[0].)
>>
>> __file__
>>
> but for modules launched with execfile, __file__ doesn't exists.
>
> cheers,
> Stef
>
The way I read the docs, execfile() doesn't create a module, so this is
irrelevant. Effectively it adds to the current module, or to whatever
the global() and local() dictionary define.
I haven't experimented with it (as the doc says, it's used rarely), so
if I'm wrong, please correct me.
DaveA
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