Find where python is installed (if it is not a standard dir)

Question

Python on my machine, I just don’t know where, if I find python in the terminal, it will open Python 2.6.4, it is not in its default directory, there certainly is a way to find its installation location from here?

Answer 1

In a Unix terminal (including Mac OS X) you can do

which python 

and it will tell you.

Answer 2

sys has useful stuff:

 $ python Python 2.6.6 (r266:84297, Aug 24 2010, 18:13:38) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import sys >>> sys.executable 'c:\\Python26\\python.exe' >>> sys.exec_prefix 'c:\\Python26' >>> >>> print '\n'.join(sys.path) c:\Python26\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg c:\Python26\lib\site-packages\nose-1.0.0-py2.6.egg C:\Windows\system32\python26.zip c:\Python26\DLLs c:\Python26\lib c:\Python26\lib\plat-win c:\Python26\lib\lib-tk c:\Python26 c:\Python26\lib\site-packages c:\Python26\lib\site-packages\win32 c:\Python26\lib\site-packages\win32\lib c:\Python26\lib\site-packages\Pythonwin c:\Python26\lib\site-packages\wx-2.8-msw-unicode 

Answer 3

Platform Independent Single Line Solution

Python 2:

 python -c "import sys; print sys.executable" 

Python 3:

 python -c "import sys; print(sys.executable)" 

Answer 4

Take a look at sys.path :

 >>> import sys >>> print(sys.path) 

Answer 5

On windows with where python should work.

Answer 6

You should be able to enter "what python" and it will print the path to python.

or you can enter:

 python >>> import re >>> re.__file__ 

and it will output the path to the re module, and you will see where python is located.

Answer 7

To find all Python installations on Windows, run this on the command line:

 dir site.py /s 

Make sure you are on the root drive. You will see something like this .

Answer 8

For Windows users:

If the python command is not in your $PATH var environment.

Open PowerShell and run these commands to find the folder

 cd \ ls *ython* -Recurse -Directory 

This should tell you where python is installed.

Answer 9

On Windows Search Python, then right-click and click "Open File Location." The way i did