Question

Im sure there is a simple way to get a modules path from the modulename, right? I.e. I want to retrieve /path/to/module from path.to.module preferably in python 2.7.

I dont intend to import the module and I have the modulename as a string.

Answer 1

sys.modules['path.to.module'].__file__

Python 2.7.2+ (default, Oct  4 2011, 20:06:09) 
[GCC 4.6.1] on linux2
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>>> import collections
>>> import sys
>>> sys.modules['collections'].__file__
'/usr/lib/python2.7/collections.pyc'
>>>