How to get the current running module path/name

Question

I\'ve searched and this seems to be a simple question without a simple answer.

I have the file a/b/c.py which would be called with python -m a.b.c

Answer 1

Number of options are there to get the path/name of the current module.

First be familiar with the use of __file__ in Python, Click here to see the usage.

It holds the name of currently loaded module.

Check/Try the following code, it will work on both Python2 & Python3.

» module_names.py

import os

print (__file__)
print (os.path.abspath(__file__))
print (os.path.realpath(__file__))

Output on MAC OS X:

MacBook-Pro-2:practice admin$ python module_names.py 
module_names.py
/Users/admin/projects/Python/python-the-snake/practice/module_names.py
/Users/admin/projects/Python/python-the-snake/practice/module_names.py

So here we got the name of current module name and its absolute path.