how to get module location

when i import module using

import module开发者_StackOverflow中文版_name

is it possible to see where in my hard disk is that module located?

It is worth mentioning that packages have __file__ attribute which points to __init__.py, they also have __path__ which points to the package directory. So you can use hasattr(module_name, '__path__') and module_name.__path__[0] or module_name.__file__.

Example (in REPL):

import socket, SOAPpy # SOAPpy is a package
socket.__file__
# .../python2.5/socket.pyc
socket.__path__
# AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute '__path__'
SOAPpy.__file__
# .../2.5/site-packages/SOAPpy/__init__.pyc
SOAPpy.__path__
# ['.../2.5/site-packages/SOAPpy']

Try: module_name.__file__.

If you want to 'inspect' an object, use: inspect

import module_name
module_name.__file__

You can use module's file attribute to find the location.

import sys print sys.__file__