On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:40:59 +0100, Stef Mientki wrote:
> 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.
If you execute a file with execfile, it isn't a module. It's a string
read from a file being execute, which is not the same thing.
Hint: in Python 3, execfile is gone (thank goodness!). To get the same
result, you use exec(file('myfile').read()).
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