Get the name of current script with Python

Question

I'm trying to get the name of the Python script that is currently running.

For example, I have a script called foo.py and I would like to do something like this inside it:

print Scriptname

and get: foo.py.

Answer 1

For getting the name of the Python script that is currently running you can use __file__. And if you want to remove the directory part which might be present with the name of the script, you can use os.path.basename(__file__).

Another thing you can use sys.argv[] and it will print foo.py for python foo.py, dir/foo.py for python dir/foo.py, etc.

import sys 

print(sys.argv[0])