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

The only way is to do path manipulation with os.getcwd(), os.path, file and whatnot, as you mentioned.

Actually, it could be a good patch to implement for optparse / argparse (which currently replace "%prog" in the usage string with os.path.basename(sys.argv[0]) -- you are using optparse, right? -- ), i.e. another special string like %module.