python NameError: global name '__file__' is not defined

Question

When I run this code in python 2.7, I get this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File \"C:\\Python26\\Lib\\site-packages\\pyutilib.subprocess-3.5.4\\         


        

Answer 1

If you're exec'ing a file via command line, you can use this hack

import traceback

def get_this_filename():
    try:
        raise NotImplementedError("No error")
    except Exception as e:
        exc_type, exc_value, exc_traceback = sys.exc_info()
        filename = traceback.extract_tb(exc_traceback)[-1].filename
    return filename

This worked for me in the UnrealEnginePython console, calling py.exec myfile.py