Frans Englich wrote: > This is silly. How do I access data files I've installed with distutils? In a > portable, generic way, I want to find out what is the following path on most > systems: > > /usr/local/lib/python2.4/lib/site-packages/foo/bar.txt
Most systems? A tad *nix-centric, yes/no? > > How do I figure out the rest, if I know foo/bar.txt? sys.prefix doesn't get me > far. This hint may be useful: >>> import sys >>> sys.modules['readline'].__file__ 'c:\\Python24\\lib\\site-packages\\readline\\__init__.pyc' but it may not work if the caller does "from yourmodule import ....." or "import yourmodule as ym". Over to you. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
