How do I get the path of the current executed file in Python?

Question

This may seem like a newbie question, but it is not. Some common approaches don\'t work in all cases:

sys.argv[0]

This means using path = os.path.abs

Answer 1

The short answer is that there is no guaranteed way to get the information you want, however there are heuristics that work almost always in practice. You might look at How do I find the location of the executable in C?. It discusses the problem from a C point of view, but the proposed solutions are easily transcribed into Python.