pythonmoduleinotify

How to retrieve a module's path?

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 a module's path in python?

Solution 
  • import a_module
print(a_module.__file__)

    Will actually give you the path to the .pyc file that was loaded, at least on Mac OS X. So I guess you can do:

    import os
path = os.path.abspath(a_module.__file__)

    You can also try:

    path = os.path.dirname(a_module.__file__)

    To get the module's directory.