[Tutor] A few Questions

[Michael Lange]

On Sat, 4 Sep 2004 12:39:24 +0100
Adam Cripps <kabads at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 4 Sep 2004 11:13:17 +0100, Alan Gauld
> <alan.gauld at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> > >  1.What command makes the python programme print out the file it is
> > in?
> > 
> > The sys.argv[0] value should be the name of the python script.
> > I don't think it provides the full path however.
> > And what happens if you use py2exe I have no idea.
> 
> I'm pretty sure that it does show the whole path on Windows - not sure
> for *nix. I used this a few days ago and remembered that I didn't need
> to use [0].
> 
> HTH
> 
> Adam
> 

On linux it shows the complete path, too, but in fact the path to the file that is called
from the command line, which might cause confusion if you use a symbolic link to launch your
program.

Regards

Michael