Accessing files in python egg from inside the egg

Question

The question is an attempt to get the exact instruction on how to do that. There were few attempts before, which don\'t seem to be full solutions:

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Answer 1

The zipimporter used to load a module can be accessed using the __loader__ attribute on the module, so accessing a file within the egg should be as simple as:

__loader__.get_data('path/within/the/egg')