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alex
alex

Reputation:

How to print Python installation directory to the output?

Let's say Python is installed in the location

C:\TOOLS\COMMON\python\python252


I want to print this location in the output of my program. Please let me know can I do this.

Upvotes: 29

Views: 45615

Answers (3)

Grzegorz Oledzki
Grzegorz Oledzki

Reputation: 24271

Maybe either of these will satisfy you:

>>> import sys
>>> print(sys.prefix)
/usr
>>> print(sys.path)
['', '/usr/lib/python25.zip', '/usr/lib/python2.5', '/usr/lib/python2.5/plat-linux2',
'/usr/lib/python2.5/lib-tk', '/usr/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload', 
'/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages', '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages', 
'/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Numeric', '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gst-0.10',
'/var/lib/python-support/python2.5', '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0', 
'/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/gtk-2.0']

Upvotes: 7

fortran
fortran

Reputation: 76067

you can use

import sys, os
os.path.dirname(sys.executable)

but remember than in Unix systems the "installation" of a program is usually distributed along the following folders:

  • /usr/bin (this is what you'll probably get)
  • /usr/lib
  • /usr/share
  • etc.

Upvotes: 39

ars
ars

Reputation: 123528

Try:

>>> import sys
>>> print sys.prefix

See the documentation for the sys module for more details.

Upvotes: 4

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