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Skaperen

Sep-17-2019, 08:36 PM
in a module that could be renamed when installed, is there a way for it to discover its own name at the time it is imported?

Larz60+

Sep-18-2019, 12:03 AM
myname = __file__

Gribouillis

Sep-18-2019, 06:42 AM
__name__

Skaperen

Sep-19-2019, 10:33 PM
yay! they both work.

Larz60+

Sep-19-2019, 11:41 PM
__name__ is better, __file__ doesn't work in interactive mode because there is no file
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