How can I find additional files installed with my python package from an included script?

I've built a python package that installs with a number of external files. I need to be able to read those files from a script that gets installed with the package. I can see that I can use __file__ inside my script, and it returns something like this:

/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/M5-0.3.0-py2.6.egg/EGG-INFO/scripts/..
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and so I can navigate to where the files were installed (top level of the .egg directory), but I'm looking for a more "standard" way to determine where my package is installed.

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You might want something like the pkgutil.get_data function.

It will read in resources relative to __file__ if your package lives as a standard python package directory structure on the disk, and I think it will read resources out of a zipped egg as well (though I've not used it for that myself).

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does os.getcwd() get you anywhere close? (it returns the 'current working directory', usually the one from which you lauched the main script)

what would be wrong with using __file__? If you are looking for any higher level function, it would probably use a similar technique.

import os
d = os.path.dirname(__file__[:__file__.rindex(os.extsep+'egg')])

gives you the directory; 'navigate' to it with

os.startfile(d)