How to retrieve a module's path?

Question

I want to detect whether module has changed. Now, using inotify is simple, you just need to know the directory you want to get notifications from.

How do I retrieve

Answer 1

Command Line Utility

You can tweak it to a command line utility,

python-which 

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Create /usr/local/bin/python-which

#!/usr/bin/env python

import importlib
import os
import sys

args = sys.argv[1:]
if len(args) > 0:
    module = importlib.import_module(args[0])
    print os.path.dirname(module.__file__)

Make it executable

sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/python-which