How to retrieve a module's path?

Question

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

Answer 1

Here is a quick bash script in case it's useful to anyone. I just want to be able to set an environment variable so that I can pushd to the code.

#!/bin/bash
module=${1:?"I need a module name"}

python << EOI
import $module
import os
print os.path.dirname($module.__file__)
EOI

Shell example:

[root@sri-4625-0004 ~]# export LXML=$(get_python_path.sh lxml)
[root@sri-4625-0004 ~]# echo $LXML
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/lxml
[root@sri-4625-0004 ~]#