DevOps-Bash-tools/python_find_library_path.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# shellcheck disable=SC2230
#  vim:ts=4:sts=4:sw=4:et
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#  Author: Hari Sekhon
#  Date: 2019-09-27 17:54:37 +0100 (Fri, 27 Sep 2019)
#
#  https://github.com/harisekhon/bash-tools
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#  License: see accompanying Hari Sekhon LICENSE file
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#  If you're using my code you're welcome to connect with me on LinkedIn and optionally send me feedback to help steer this or other code I publish
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#  https://www.linkedin.com/in/harisekhon
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# Shows the path to Python libraries given as arguments
#
# There is a better version of this in the adjacent DevOps Python Tools repo called find_python_library_path.py

set -euo pipefail
[ -n "${DEBUG:-}" ] && set -x

python="${PYTHON:-python}"

find_python_sys_path(){
    cat <<EOF |
from __future__ import print_function
import sys
for path in sys.path:
    if path.endswith('/site-packages'):
        print(path)
        break
EOF
    "$python" #|
    #sed 's,/python/*[[:digit:].]*/site-packages,,'
}

if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
    find_python_sys_path
fi

for arg; do
    if [ "$arg" = "sys" ]; then
        find_python_sys_path
    else
        "$python" -c "from __future__ import print_function; import $arg; print($arg.__file__)"
    fi
done