Find where python is installed (if it isn't default dir)
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Python is on my machine, I just don't know where, if I type python in terminal it will open Python 2.6.4, this isn't in it's default directory, there surely is a way of finding it's install location from here?
Python Solutions
Solution 1 - Python
sys has some 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
Solution 2 - Python
In unix (mac os X included) terminal you can do
which python
and it will tell you.
Solution 3 - Python
Platform independent solution in one line is
Python 2:
python -c "import sys; print sys.executable"
Python 3:
python -c "import sys; print(sys.executable)"
Solution 4 - Python
For Windows CMD run: where python
For Windows PowerShell run: Get-Command python
Solution 5 - Python
Have a look at sys.path:
>>> import sys
>>> print(sys.path)
Solution 6 - Python
You should be able to type "which python" and it will print out a path to python.
or you can type:
python
>>> import re
>>> re.__file__
and it will print a path to the re module and you'll see where python is that way.
Solution 7 - Python
To find all the installations of Python on Windows run this at the command prompt:
dir site.py /s
Make sure you are in the root drive. You will see something like this.
Solution 8 - Python
If you are using wiindows OS (I am using windows 10 ) just type
where python
in command prompt ( cmd )
It will show you the directory where you have installed .
Solution 9 - Python
For Windows Users:
If the python command is not in your $PATH environment var.
Open PowerShell and run these commands to find the folder
cd \
ls *ython* -Recurse -Directory
That should tell you where python is installed
Solution 10 - Python
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First search for PYTHON IDLE from search bar
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Open the IDLE and use below commands.
import sys print(sys.path)
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It will give you the path where the python.exe is installed. For eg: C:\Users\
\... \python.exe -
Add the same path to system environment variable.
Solution 11 - Python
On windows search python,then right click and click on "Open file location".That's how I did