How do I get the path and name of the file that is currently executing?

Question

I have scripts calling other script files but I need to get the filepath of the file that is currently running within the process.

For example, let\'s say I have th

Answer 1

I think this is cleaner:

import inspect
print inspect.stack()[0][1]

and gets the same information as:

print inspect.getfile(inspect.currentframe())

Where [0] is the current frame in the stack (top of stack) and [1] is for the file name, increase to go backwards in the stack i.e.

print inspect.stack()[1][1]

would be the file name of the script that called the current frame. Also, using [-1] will get you to the bottom of the stack, the original calling script.