[Paraview] location of python plugin macro

[m.c.wilkins at massey.ac.nz]

Hi Pat,

Thank you for your quick response.

Yes setting the __file__ variable would be great.

Is there a formal way to do a feature request?  From googling, I see
people have just posted requests to this list.  Is that good enough?
If so, could we please have this has a feature request?

If it is worth your time, perhaps you could point me to were I should
start looking and perhaps I might be able to figure out how to
implement the feature myself.

Thank you

Matt Wilkins

On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 10:46:23PM -0400, pat marion wrote:
> I'm afraid there isn't a way to get the name of the python file that is
> currently executing.  Paraview reads the contents for the file into a string
> and passes the string to the interpreter, so python has no association between
> the string and the file.  As a feature request, I think it would be reasonable
> to have paraview set the __file__ variable to be the name of the file before
> executing it.
> 
> Pat
> 
> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 5:15 PM, <m.c.wilkins at massey.ac.nz> wrote:
> 
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>     I would like to find the location of the currently running python
>     plugin macro.  This is so I can do an import of a library that lives
>     in a directory relative to the directory where all my paraview plugins
>     live.  Is this possible?
> 
>     In a normal python programme sys.argv[0] can help me, but ofcourse
>     that just points to the paraview binary in this case.  os.getcwd() is
>     no use.  The info is known to paraview (for instance it is in
>     ~/.config/ParaView/ParaView3.8.0.ini file under the [PythonMacros]
>     section - but I really don't want to go trolling through that file).
> 
>     I have quite a few plugins, and I want to do the correct thing by
>     breaking some of the shared functionality out into a module.
> 
>     Thanks for any help
> 
>     Matt
> 
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