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Asked: 2026-06-10T02:13:52+00:00

For Linux this would give me / , for Windows on the C drive

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For Linux this would give me /, for Windows on the C drive that would give me C:\\. Note that python is not necessarily installed on the C drive on windows.

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    You can get the path to the Python executable using sys.executable:

    >>> import sys
>>> import os
>>> sys.executable
'/usr/bin/python'

    Then, for Windows, the drive letter will be the first part of splitdrive:

    >>> os.path.splitdrive(sys.executable)
('', '/usr/bin/python')
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