I've just started using a Debian system, instead of the usual RedHat based systems I'm used to, and module.__file__ appears to have disappeared for some (but not all) modules.
On Fedora: [steve@orac ~]$ python -E Python 2.6.2 (r262:71600, Aug 21 2009, 12:22:21) [GCC 4.4.1 20090818 (Red Hat 4.4.1-6)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import math >>> math.__file__ '/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload/mathmodule.so' and on Debian squeeze: steve@runes:~$ python -E Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Dec 27 2010, 00:02:40) [GCC 4.4.5] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import math >>> math.__file__ Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute '__file__' What's going on? -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
