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Is there a command like “watch” or “inotifywait” on the Mac?

September 26, 2022 by Tarik

fswatch fswatch is a small program using the Mac OS X FSEvents API to monitor a directory. When an event about any change to that directory is received, the specified shell command is executed by /bin/bash If you’re on GNU/Linux, inotifywatch (part of the inotify-tools package on most distributions) provides similar functionality. Update: fswatch can … Read more

How to retrieve a module’s path?

September 5, 2022 by Tarik

import a_module print(a_module.__file__) Will actually give you the path to the .pyc file that was loaded, at least on Mac OS X. So I guess you can do: import os path = os.path.abspath(a_module.__file__) You can also try: path = os.path.dirname(a_module.__file__) To get the module’s directory.